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, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.h b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a7b74d36acd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/cacheinfo.h
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#ifndef _PPC_CACHEINFO_H
+#define _PPC_CACHEINFO_H
+
+/* These are just hooks for sysfs.c to use. */
+extern void cacheinfo_cpu_online(unsigned int cpu_id);
+extern void cacheinfo_cpu_offline(unsigned int cpu_id);
+
+#endif /* _PPC_CACHEINFO_H */