From: tengfei@codeaurora.org
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, sudeep.holla@arm.com,
will.deacon@arm.com, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm: kernel: add support for detecting armv8 cpu cache information
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2018 16:21:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8a260ff92ceaf2c673327fd390780434@codeaurora.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181018085609.GI30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
Hi Russell,
our team team was trying to check L1, L2 cache size with adb
commands help on 32bit ARMv8 platform, so we submit this patch.
Thanks,
Tengfei Fan
On 2018-10-18 16:56, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 02:16:47PM +0800, Teng Fei Fan wrote:
>> This patch adds support for cacheinfo on 32bit ARMv8 platform.
>> Add support for detecting cpu cache information cpu cache information
>> via sysfs for 32bit armv8 platform. And export to sysfs then userspace
>> can get from /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/cache.
>
> You don't explain why this is needed.
>
> We don't do this for previous 32-bit CPUs, so why should we do this
> for ARMv8 running on a 32-bit kernel?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-05 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-18 6:16 [PATCH] arm: kernel: add support for detecting armv8 cpu cache information Teng Fei Fan
2018-10-18 8:56 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-05 8:21 ` tengfei [this message]
2018-10-18 9:36 ` Sudeep Holla
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