Commit eecaaba5 authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by H. Peter Anvin

Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable text

Change contact person to AMD kernel mailing list, update text and
external references, drop "Users:" tag.

Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305553188-21061-4-git-send-email-bp@amd64.orgAcked-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
parent 42be4505
...@@ -183,21 +183,21 @@ Description: Discover and change clock speed of CPUs ...@@ -183,21 +183,21 @@ Description: Discover and change clock speed of CPUs
to learn how to control the knobs. to learn how to control the knobs.
What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/cache_disable_X What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index3/cache_disable_{0,1}
Date: August 2008 Date: August 2008
KernelVersion: 2.6.27 KernelVersion: 2.6.27
Contact: mark.langsdorf@amd.com Contact: discuss@x86-64.org
Description: These files exist in every cpu's cache index directories. Description: Disable L3 cache indices
There are currently 2 cache_disable_# files in each
directory. Reading from these files on a supported These files exist in every CPU's cache/index3 directory. Each
processor will return that cache disable index value cache_disable_{0,1} file corresponds to one disable slot which
for that processor and node. Writing to one of these can be used to disable a cache index. Reading from these files
files will cause the specificed cache index to be disabled. on a processor with this functionality will return the currently
disabled index for that node. There is one L3 structure per
Currently, only AMD Family 10h Processors support cache index node, or per internal node on MCM machines. Writing a valid
disable, and only for their L3 caches. See the BIOS and index to one of these files will cause the specificed cache
Kernel Developer's Guide at index to be disabled.
http://support.amd.com/us/Embedded_TechDocs/31116-Public-GH-BKDG_3-28_5-28-09.pdf
for formatting information and other details on the All AMD processors with L3 caches provide this functionality.
cache index disable. For details, see BKDGs at
Users: joachim.deguara@amd.com http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx
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