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Sudeep writes:
"cacheinfo and arch_topology updates for v6.3
The main change is to build the cache topology information for all
the CPUs from the primary CPU. Currently the cacheinfo for secondary CPUs
is created during the early boot on the respective CPU itself. Preemption
and interrupts are disabled at this stage. On PREEMPT_RT kernels, allocating
memory and even parsing the PPTT table for ACPI based systems triggers a:
'BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context'
To prevent this bug, the cacheinfo is now allocated from the primary CPU
when preemption and interrupts are enabled and before booting secondary
CPUs. The cache levels/leaves are computed from DT/ACPI PPTT information
only, without relying on any architecture specific mechanism if done so
early.
The other minor change included here is to handle shared caches at
different levels when not all the CPUs on the system have the same
cache hierarchy."
* tag 'archtopo-cacheinfo-updates-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sudeep.holla/linux:
cacheinfo: Fix shared_cpu_map to handle shared caches at different levels
arch_topology: Build cacheinfo from primary CPU
ACPI: PPTT: Update acpi_find_last_cache_level() to acpi_get_cache_info()
ACPI: PPTT: Remove acpi_find_cache_levels()
cacheinfo: Check 'cache-unified' property to count cache leaves
cacheinfo: Return error code in init_of_cache_level()
cacheinfo: Use RISC-V's init_cache_level() as generic OF implementation
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