Hi,
On 09/17/2018 05:46 PM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
On 9/17/2018 10:17 AM, Sudeep Holla wrote:
On 14/09/18 17:28, Jeffrey Hugo wrote:
The type of a cache might not be specified by architectural
mechanisms (ie
system registers), but its type might be specified in the PPTT. In this
case, we should populate the type of the cache, rather than leave it
undefined.
This fixes the issue where the cacheinfo driver will not populate sysfs
for such caches, resulting in the information missing from utilities
like
lstopo and lscpu, thus degrading the user experience.
Fixes: 2bd00bcd73e5 (ACPI/PPTT: Add Processor Properties Topology
Table parsing)
Reported-by: Vijaya Kumar K <vkilari@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo <jhugo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/pptt.c | 15 +++++++++++----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pptt.c b/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
index d1e26cb..bb00ed9 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
@@ -402,11 +402,18 @@ static void update_cache_properties(struct
cacheinfo *this_leaf,
}
}
/*
- * If the above flags are valid, and the cache type is NOCACHE
- * update the cache type as well.
+ * If cache type is NOCACHE, then the cache hasn't been specified
+ * via other mechanisms. Update the type if either the cache has
+ * been fully specified in PPTT, or a cache type has been provided.
+ *
+ * Note, we assume such caches are unified based on conventional
system
+ * design and known examples. Significant work is required
elsewhere to
+ * fully support data/instruction only type caches which are only
+ * specified in PPTT.
*/
- if (this_leaf->type == CACHE_TYPE_NOCACHE &&
- valid_flags == PPTT_CHECKED_ATTRIBUTES)
+ if ((this_leaf->type == CACHE_TYPE_NOCACHE) &&
+ (valid_flags == PPTT_CHECKED_ATTRIBUTES ||
+ found_cache->flags & ACPI_PPTT_CACHE_TYPE_VALID))
this_leaf->type = CACHE_TYPE_UNIFIED;
I thought I did mention that we can drop the valid_flags altogether
unless Jeremy has reasons not to.
You suggested that perhaps that could be the case. It seemed like an
open question to me. I'm at Linaro Connect without access to the device
this week, so I guess someone has roughly a week to chime in that the
valid flags should be kept, otherwise I'll try a v3 with them removed.
The point of the valid_flags/CHECKED_ATTRIBUTE was to help assure that a
minimum set of attributes were being provided by the firmware. If we are
going to reset the CACHE_TYPE, then we might as well remove the
valid_flag/CHECKED_ATTRIBUTE counts as it can be easily bypassed.
So, yes please, remove the valid_flags with this change.
Thanks,
