Adding cache shape info to powerpc
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh@kernel.crashing.org
Thu Dec 1 23:00:00 GMT 2016
On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 16:04 -0600, Steven Munroe wrote:
> The AT_*_CACHESHAPE where encoding more information then strictly
> required for _SC_*CACHE_SIZE.
>
> So the alternative is to define 4 new/different AT_*_CACHESIZE
> entries
> where each is just the respective cache size in KB.
>
> This should handle current and projected values in 32-bits for the
> foreseeable future.Â
You don't see any need present or future for the associativity
information at all ?
Cheers,
Ben.
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