linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] drivers: cacheinfo support

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Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:46:19 +0100
From:	Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Sudeep Holla <Sudeep.Holla@....com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Lorenzo Pieralisi <Lorenzo.Pieralisi@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] drivers: cacheinfo support

Hi Greg,

On 30/09/14 14:48, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> This series adds a generic cacheinfo support similar to topology. The
> implementation is based on x86 cacheinfo support. Currently x86, powerpc,
> ia64 and s390 have their own implementations. While adding similar support
> to ARM and ARM64, here is the attempt to make it generic quite similar to
> topology info support. It also adds the missing ABI documentation for
> the cacheinfo sysfs which is already being used.
>
> It moves all the existing different implementations on x86, ia64, powerpc
> and s390 to use the generic cacheinfo infrastructure introduced here.
> These changes on non-ARM platforms are only compile tested and tested on x86.
>
> This series also adds support for ARM and ARM64 architectures based on
> the generic support.
>
> The code can be fetched from:
>   git://linux-arm.org/linux-skn cacheinfo
>

I am hoping to target this for v3.19 if possible, it would be good if
you can review and provide feedback.

Regards,
Sudeep

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