Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable text
authorBorislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Mon, 16 May 2011 13:39:48 +0000 (15:39 +0200)
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 16 May 2011 18:24:30 +0000 (11:24 -0700)
Change contact person to AMD kernel mailing list, update text and
external references, drop "Users:" tag.

Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305553188-21061-4-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu

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@@ -183,21 +183,21 @@ Description:      Discover and change clock speed of CPUs
                to learn how to control the knobs.
 
 
-What:      /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/cache_disable_X
-Date:      August 2008
+What:          /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index3/cache_disable_{0,1}
+Date:          August 2008
 KernelVersion: 2.6.27
-Contact:       mark.langsdorf@amd.com
-Description:   These files exist in every cpu's cache index directories.
-               There are currently 2 cache_disable_# files in each
-               directory.  Reading from these files on a supported
-               processor will return that cache disable index value
-               for that processor and node.  Writing to one of these
-               files will cause the specificed cache index to be disabled.
-
-               Currently, only AMD Family 10h Processors support cache index
-               disable, and only for their L3 caches.  See the BIOS and
-               Kernel Developer's Guide at
-               http://support.amd.com/us/Embedded_TechDocs/31116-Public-GH-BKDG_3-28_5-28-09.pdf       
-               for formatting information and other details on the
-               cache index disable.
-Users:    joachim.deguara@amd.com
+Contact:       discuss@x86-64.org
+Description:   Disable L3 cache indices
+
+               These files exist in every CPU's cache/index3 directory. Each
+               cache_disable_{0,1} file corresponds to one disable slot which
+               can be used to disable a cache index. Reading from these files
+               on a processor with this functionality will return the currently
+               disabled index for that node. There is one L3 structure per
+               node, or per internal node on MCM machines. Writing a valid
+               index to one of these files will cause the specificed cache
+               index to be disabled.
+
+               All AMD processors with L3 caches provide this functionality.
+               For details, see BKDGs at
+               http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx