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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: vsdo_datapage.h WTF?
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Hi,

> No. There -used- to be this systemcfg structure that was exposed to
> userspace on ppc64. I made it deprecated. However, for the sake of
> backward compatbility, I kept vdso datapage with the exact same layout
> for the first part of it (before the syscall maps) and haven't removed
> the mmap call for it, but it will be gone soon.

We need a way to export cache size/associativity information (sysfs,
/proc/device-tree parsing?) and a plan to fix the applications using it
first.

Anton