linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] x86/cacheinfo: Clean out init_cache

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Message-ID: <135b7be6-b31a-4104-abd2-986114323745@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:01:38 +0300
From: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@...e.com>
To: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org
Cc: Andreas Herrmann <aherrmann@...e.com>,
 Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>, Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@...el.com>,
 Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, Radu Rendec <rrendec@...hat.com>,
 Pierre Gondois <Pierre.Gondois@....com>, Pu Wen <puwen@...on.cn>,
 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
 Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
 Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
 Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
 Huang Ying <ying.huang@...el.com>, Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri@...el.com>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] x86/cacheinfo: Clean out init_cache_level()

On 27.08.24 г. 8:16 ч., Ricardo Neri wrote:
> init_cache_level() no longer has a purpose on x86. It no longer needs to
> set num_leaves, and it never had to set num_levels, which was unnecessary
> on x86.
> 
> Replace it with "return 0" simply to override the weak function, which
> would return an error.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@...ux.intel.com>

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@...e.com>

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