Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT v2 3/8] s390: move cacheinfo sysfs to generic cacheinfo infrastructure

[Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@arm.com>]

Hi Heiko,

On 10/02/14 11:30, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 04:49:18PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:
>> From: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
>>
>> This patch removes the redundant sysfs cacheinfo code by making use of
>> the newly introduced generic cacheinfo infrastructure.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
> 
> [...]
> 
>> -static ssize_t shared_cpu_map_func(struct kobject *kobj, int type, char *buf)
>> -{
>> -	struct cache_index_dir *index;
>> -	int len;
>> +	this_leaf->level = level + 1;
>> +	this_leaf->type = type;
>> +	this_leaf->coherency_line_size = ecag(EXTRACT_LINE_SIZE, level, ti);
>> +	this_leaf->ways_of_associativity = ecag(EXTRACT_ASSOCIATIVITY,
>> +						level, ti);
>> +	this_leaf->size = ecag(EXTRACT_SIZE, level, ti);
>> +	if (private)
>> +		cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &this_leaf->shared_cpu_map);
>> +	else /* System wide */
>> +		cpumask_copy(&this_leaf->shared_cpu_map, cpu_online_mask);
> 
> FWIW, this also seems to be wrong: on s390 we only expose cpu private
> caches via sysfs. Shared caches are not exposed (and simply saying they are
> system wide would be wrong).
> Please have a look at these two commits which should describe why things
> are as they are on s390:
> 
> 881730ad365130f64b5c70c40904b04eb3b79de3
>  "s390/cache: expose cpu cache topology via sysfs"
> 6668022c7bde3fdc96d3d257294a7216c7a46829
>  "s390/cache: add cpu cache information to /proc/cpuinfo"
> 
>

I need your help to get few things clarified.

IIUC, I see that shared caches are not exposed via sysfs but there are exposed
through /proc/cpuinfo, right ? If yes, based on your above statement, shared
cpus are may not be system-wide, then how can /proc/cpuinfo show shared cache info.

Regards,
Sudeep