powerpc: Rewrite sysfs processor cache info code

The current code for providing processor cache information in sysfs
has the following deficiencies:
- several complex functions that are hard to understand
- implicit recursion (cache_desc_release -> kobject_put -> cache_desc_release)
- explicit recursion (create_cache_index_info)
- use of two per-cpu arrays when one would suffice
- duplication of work on systems where CPUs share cache

Also, when I looked at implementing support for a shared_cpu_map
attribute, it was pretty much impossible to handle hotplug without
checking every single online CPU's cache_desc list and fixing things
up... not that this is a hot path, but it would have introduced
O(n^2)-ish behavior during boot.  Addressing this involved rethinking
the core data structures used, which didn't lend itself to an
incremental approach.

This implementation maintains a "forest" (potentially more than one
tree) of cache objects which reflects the system's cache topology.
Cache objects are instantiated as needed as CPUs come online.  A
per-cpu array is used mainly for sysfs-related bookkeeping; the
objects in the array just point to the appropriate points in the
forest.

This maintains compatibility with the existing code and includes some
enhancements:
- Implement the shared_cpu_map attribute, which is essential for
  enabling userspace to discover the system's overall cache topology.
- Use cache-block-size properties if cache-line-size is not available.

I chose to place this implementation in a new file since it would have
roughly doubled the size of sysfs.c, which is already kind of messy.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
index 1308a86e9070..8d1a419df35d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ endif
 obj-y                           := cputable.o ptrace.o syscalls.o \
                                    irq.o align.o signal_32.o pmc.o vdso.o \
                                    init_task.o process.o systbl.o idle.o \
-                                   signal.o sysfs.o
+                                   signal.o sysfs.o cacheinfo.o
 obj-y                           += vdso32/
 obj-$(CONFIG_PPC64)             += setup_64.o sys_ppc32.o \
                                    signal_64.o ptrace32.o \