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ACPI/PPTT: Add Processor Properties Topology Table parsing
authorJeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Fri, 11 May 2018 23:58:00 +0000 (18:58 -0500)
committerCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Thu, 17 May 2018 16:28:09 +0000 (17:28 +0100)
commit2bd00bcd73e5edd5769e2a5f24c59a517582d862
treefc7095b3bf60b9befb0a8b0a7436fc96bf1f4ef0
parent30d87bfacbee396646975a00959764a7c49510ec
ACPI/PPTT: Add Processor Properties Topology Table parsing

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, within a given
package, etc.

Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Vijaya Kumar K <vkilari@codeaurora.org>
Tested-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Tomasz Nowicki <Tomasz.Nowicki@cavium.com>
Acked-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
drivers/acpi/pptt.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/acpi.h