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The CPUID leaf 0x4 parsing code at cpuid4_cache_lookup_regs() is ugly and
convoluted. It is tangled with multiple nested conditions to handle:
* AMD with TOPEXT, or Hygon CPUs via leaf 0x8000001d
* Legacy AMD fallback via leaf 0x4 emulation
* Intel CPUs via the actual CPUID leaf 0x4
Moreover, AMD L3 northbridge initialization is also awkwardly placed
alongside the CPUID calls of the first two scenarios above. Refactor all
of that as follows:
* Update AMD's leaf 0x4 emulation comment to represent current state
* Clearly label the AMD leaf 0x4 emulation function as a fallback
* Split AMD/Hygon and Intel code paths into separate functions
* Move AMD L3 northbridge initialization out of CPUID leaf 0x4 code,
and into populate_cache_leaves() where it belongs. There,
ci_info_init() can directly store the initialized object in the
private pointer of the <linux/cacheinfo.h> API.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwi@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250324133324.23458-16-darwi@linutronix.de
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