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| author | Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com> | 2011-05-16 15:39:48 +0200 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com> | 2011-05-16 20:24:30 +0200 |
| commit | eecaaba5b2e4ae762b4726fae2e3b22630e137ec (patch) | |
| tree | c99a5089e3d766fb34e7a92abfb19305b6dbe9ab /Documentation | |
| parent | x86, AMD, cacheinfo: Fix L3 cache index disable checks (diff) | |
| download | linux-eecaaba5b2e4ae762b4726fae2e3b22630e137ec.tar.xz linux-eecaaba5b2e4ae762b4726fae2e3b22630e137ec.zip | |
Documentation, ABI: Update L3 cache index disable text
Change contact person to AMD kernel mailing list, update text and
external references, drop "Users:" tag.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1305553188-21061-4-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 34 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index 7564e88bfa43..e7be75b96e4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -183,21 +183,21 @@ Description: Discover and change clock speed of CPUs to learn how to control the knobs. -What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/cache_disable_X -Date: August 2008 +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index3/cache_disable_{0,1} +Date: August 2008 KernelVersion: 2.6.27 -Contact: mark.langsdorf@amd.com -Description: These files exist in every cpu's cache index directories. - There are currently 2 cache_disable_# files in each - directory. Reading from these files on a supported - processor will return that cache disable index value - for that processor and node. Writing to one of these - files will cause the specificed cache index to be disabled. - - Currently, only AMD Family 10h Processors support cache index - disable, and only for their L3 caches. See the BIOS and - Kernel Developer's Guide at - http://support.amd.com/us/Embedded_TechDocs/31116-Public-GH-BKDG_3-28_5-28-09.pdf - for formatting information and other details on the - cache index disable. -Users: joachim.deguara@amd.com +Contact: discuss@x86-64.org +Description: Disable L3 cache indices + + These files exist in every CPU's cache/index3 directory. Each + cache_disable_{0,1} file corresponds to one disable slot which + can be used to disable a cache index. Reading from these files + on a processor with this functionality will return the currently + disabled index for that node. There is one L3 structure per + node, or per internal node on MCM machines. Writing a valid + index to one of these files will cause the specificed cache + index to be disabled. + + All AMD processors with L3 caches provide this functionality. + For details, see BKDGs at + http://developer.amd.com/documentation/guides/Pages/default.aspx |