linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] riscv: Set more data to cacheinfo

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Date:   Mon, 31 Aug 2020 10:00:17 +0300
From:   Pekka Enberg <penberg@...il.com>
To:     Zong Li <zong.li@...ive.com>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        David Abdurachmanov <david.abdurachmanov@...ive.com>,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] riscv: Set more data to cacheinfo

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 9:15 AM Zong Li <zong.li@...ive.com> wrote:
> If the sets is one, it means that the cache is fully associative, then
> we don't need to fill the ways number, just keep way number as zero,
> so here we want to find the fully associative case first and make the
> if expression fail at the beginning. We might also rewrite it as
> follow:

[snip]

Thanks for the explanation! The rewritten version is much easier to
read, at least to me.

- Pekka