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Currently the cacheinfo code on powerpc indexes the "cache" objects (modelling the L1/L2/L3 caches) where the key is device-tree node corresponding to that cache. On some of the POWER server platforms thread-groups within the core share different sets of caches (Eg: On SMT8 POWER9 systems, threads 0,2,4,6 of a core share L1 cache and threads 1,3,5,7 of the same core share another L1 cache). On such platforms, there is a single device-tree node corresponding to that cache and the cache-configuration within the threads of the core is indicated via "ibm,thread-groups" device-tree property. Since the current code is not aware of the "ibm,thread-groups" property, on the aforementoined systems, cacheinfo code still treats all the threads in the core to be sharing the cache because of the single device-tree node (In the earlier example, the cacheinfo code would says CPUs 0-7 share L1 cache). In this patch, we make the powerpc cacheinfo code aware of the "ibm,thread-groups" property. We indexe the "cache" objects by the key-pair (device-tree node, thread-group id). For any CPUX, for a given level of cache, the thread-group id is defined to be the first CPU in the "ibm,thread-groups" cache-group containing CPUX. For levels of cache which are not represented in "ibm,thread-groups" property, the thread-group id is -1. [parth: Remove "static" keyword for the definition of "thread_group_l1_cache_map" and "thread_group_l2_cache_map" to get rid of the compile error.] Signed-off-by: Gautham R. Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Parth Shah <parth@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210728175607.591679-2-parth@linux.ibm.com
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