linux-kernel - [tip:x86/debug] x86: Remove the CPU cache size printk's

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Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:18:47 GMT
From:	tip-bot for Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
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Subject: [tip:x86/debug] x86: Remove the CPU cache size printk's

Commit-ID:  15cd8812ab2ce62a2f779e93a8398bdad752291a
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/15cd8812ab2ce62a2f779e93a8398bdad752291a
Author:     Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:15:43 -0500
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CommitDate: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:14:55 +0100

x86: Remove the CPU cache size printk's

They aren't really useful, and they pollute the dmesg output a lot
(especially on machines with many cores).

Also the same information can be trivially found out from
userspace.

Reported-by: Mike Travis <travis@....com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@...fujitsu.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091112231542.GA7129@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c |   16 ----------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
index 804c40e..0df4c2b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
@@ -488,22 +488,6 @@ unsigned int __cpuinit init_intel_cacheinfo(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
 #endif
 	}
 
-	if (trace)
-		printk(KERN_INFO "CPU: Trace cache: %dK uops", trace);
-	else if (l1i)
-		printk(KERN_INFO "CPU: L1 I cache: %dK", l1i);
-
-	if (l1d)
-		printk(KERN_CONT ", L1 D cache: %dK\n", l1d);
-	else
-		printk(KERN_CONT "\n");
-
-	if (l2)
-		printk(KERN_INFO "CPU: L2 cache: %dK\n", l2);
-
-	if (l3)
-		printk(KERN_INFO "CPU: L3 cache: %dK\n", l3);
-
 	c->x86_cache_size = l3 ? l3 : (l2 ? l2 : (l1i+l1d));
 
 	return l2;
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