Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 1/7] util: add cacheinfo

["Emilio G. Cota" <cota@braap.org>]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 08:55:30 -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
(snip)
> +#elif defined(__APPLE__) \
> +      || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__FreeBSD_kernel__)
> +# include <sys/sysctl.h>
> +# if defined(__APPLE__)
> +#  define SYSCTL_CACHELINE_NAME "hw.cachelinesize"
> +# else
> +#  define SYSCTL_CACHELINE_NAME "machdep.cacheline_size"
> +# endif
> +
> +static void sys_cache_info(void)
> +{
> +    /* There's only a single sysctl for both I/D cache line sizes.  */
> +    size_t len = sizeof(qemu_icache_linesize);
> +    if (!sysctlbyname(SYSCTL_CACHELINE_NAME, &qemu_icache_linesize,
> +                      &len, NULL, 0)) {
> +        qemu_dcache_linesize = qemu_icache_linesize;
> +    }
> +}

This doesn't work on the MacOS (Darwin 16.6.0) I have access to.

If we do
	long size; // <-- type here matters!
	size_t len = sizeof(size);
	sysctlbyname(..., &size, &len, ...);
then size == 64.

However, if instead of 'long size' we have 'int size' (as in the patch),
then  'size == 1' yet sysctlbyname still returns 0. (!)
This is why I was using an intermediate long in my previous patch,
although obviously a comment there would have been appropriate.

FWIW, if we query what length sysctlbyname expects for this param (by
calling sysctlbyname(NAME, NULL, &size, NULL, 0), we get len == 8;
I presume on both 32 and 64-bit systems passing a long will work
OK here.

		E.