[PATCH] x86: when L3 is present show its size in /proc/cpuinfo
authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:59:38 +0000 (14:59 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:37:12 +0000 (17:37 -0800)
The code that prints the cache size assumes that L3 always lives in chipset
and is shared across CPUs.  Which is not really true.

I think all the cachesizes reported by cpuid are in the processor itself.
The attached patch changes the code to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c

index c802206274c20b1f4f08756335ad16bb1f133db6..7cc84a4a6df91cd9fb63f5e59408a440125be872 100644 (file)
@@ -278,13 +278,7 @@ unsigned int __devinit init_intel_cacheinfo(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
                if ( l3 )
                        printk(KERN_INFO "CPU: L3 cache: %dK\n", l3);
 
-               /*
-                * This assumes the L3 cache is shared; it typically lives in
-                * the northbridge.  The L1 caches are included by the L2
-                * cache, and so should not be included for the purpose of
-                * SMP switching weights.
-                */
-               c->x86_cache_size = l2 ? l2 : (l1i+l1d);
+               c->x86_cache_size = l3 ? l3 : (l2 ? l2 : (l1i+l1d));
        }
 
        return l2;