Hi Jonathan,

On 10/24/25 12:29, Jonathan Cameron wrote:

On Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:56:18 +0000
James Morse [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

In acpi_count_levels(), the initial value of *levels passed by the
caller is really an implementation detail of acpi_count_levels(), so it
is unreasonable to expect the callers of this function to know what to
pass in for this parameter.  The only sensible initial value is 0,
which is what the only upstream caller (acpi_get_cache_info()) passes.

Use a local variable for the starting cache level in acpi_count_levels(),
and pass the result back to the caller via the function return value.

Get rid of the levels parameter, which has no remaining purpose.

Fix acpi_get_cache_info() to match.

Suggested-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghuay@nvidia.com>

Another meh, the name is confusing type comment. 

quoted

-static void acpi_count_levels(struct acpi_table_header *table_hdr,
-			      struct acpi_pptt_processor *cpu_node,
-			      unsigned int *levels, unsigned int *split_levels)
+static int acpi_count_levels(struct acpi_table_header *table_hdr,
+			     struct acpi_pptt_processor *cpu_node,
+			     unsigned int *split_levels)
 {
+	int starting_level = 0;
+
 	do {
-		acpi_find_cache_level(table_hdr, cpu_node, levels, split_levels, 0, 0);
+		acpi_find_cache_level(table_hdr, cpu_node, &starting_level, split_levels, 0, 0);
 		cpu_node = fetch_pptt_node(table_hdr, cpu_node->parent);
 	} while (cpu_node);
+
+	return starting_level;

Given it's not the starting level at this point... Maybe just call it level or current_level.

Makes sense. I've made this update.

quoted

 }
 
 /**

@@ -645,7 +649,7 @@ int acpi_get_cache_info(unsigned int cpu, unsigned int *levels,
 	if (!cpu_node)
 		return -ENOENT;
 
-	acpi_count_levels(table, cpu_node, levels, split_levels);
+	*levels = acpi_count_levels(table, cpu_node, split_levels);
 
 	pr_debug("Cache Setup: last_level=%d split_levels=%d\n",
 		 *levels, split_levels ? *split_levels : -1);

Thanks,

Ben