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    powerpc: Show processor cache information in sysfs · 124c27d3
    Nathan Lynch authored
    Collect cache information from the OF device tree and display it in
    the cpu hierarchy in sysfs.  This is intended to be compatible at the
    userspace level with x86's implementation[1], hence some of the funny
    attribute names.  The arrangement of cache info is not immediately
    intuitive, but (again) it's for compatibility's sake.
    
    The cache attributes exposed are:
    
    type (Data, Instruction, or Unified)
    level (1, 2, 3...)
    size
    coherency_line_size
    number_of_sets
    ways_of_associativity
    
    All of these can be derived on platforms that follow the OF PowerPC
    Processor binding.  The code "publishes" only those attributes for
    which it is able to determine values; attributes for values which
    cannot be determined are not created at all.
    
    [1] arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
    
    BenH: Turned some printk's into pr_debug, added better NULL checking
    in a couple of places.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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