On 28/02/18 22:06, Jeremy Linton wrote:

ACPI 6.2 adds a new table, which describes how processing units
are related to each other in tree like fashion. Caches are
also sprinkled throughout the tree and describe the properties
of the caches in relation to other caches and processing units.

Add the code to parse the cache hierarchy and report the total
number of levels of cache for a given core using
acpi_find_last_cache_level() as well as fill out the individual
cores cache information with cache_setup_acpi() once the
cpu_cacheinfo structure has been populated by the arch specific
code.

An additional patch later in the set adds the ability to report
peers in the topology using find_acpi_cpu_topology()
to report a unique ID for each processing unit at a given level
in the tree. These unique id's can then be used to match related
processing units which exist as threads, COD (clusters
on die), within a given package, etc.

The more I look at the ACPI table parsing code, I get more questions
every time :). So I just skimmed through it this time. Not sure why
ACPI_PTR_* is not used elsewhere in drivers/acpi/tables.c

Anyways for cacheinfo part of this file:

Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <redacted>

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Regards,
Sudeep