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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index acb9bfc89b48..99983e67c13c 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -224,3 +224,50 @@ Description: Parameters for the Intel P-state driver frequency range. More details can be found in Documentation/cpu-freq/intel-pstate.txt + +What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index*/<set_of_attributes_mentioned_below> +Date: July 2014(documented, existed before August 2008) +Contact: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> + Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> +Description: Parameters for the CPU cache attributes + + allocation_policy: + - WriteAllocate: allocate a memory location to a cache line + on a cache miss because of a write + - ReadAllocate: allocate a memory location to a cache line + on a cache miss because of a read + - ReadWriteAllocate: both writeallocate and readallocate + + attributes: LEGACY used only on IA64 and is same as write_policy + + coherency_line_size: the minimum amount of data in bytes that gets + transferred from memory to cache + + level: the cache hierarcy in the multi-level cache configuration + + number_of_sets: total number of sets in the cache, a set is a + collection of cache lines with the same cache index + + physical_line_partition: number of physical cache line per cache tag + + shared_cpu_list: the list of logical cpus sharing the cache + + shared_cpu_map: logical cpu mask containing the list of cpus sharing + the cache + + size: the total cache size in kB + + type: + - Instruction: cache that only holds instructions + - Data: cache that only caches data + - Unified: cache that holds both data and instructions + + ways_of_associativity: degree of freedom in placing a particular block + of memory in the cache + + write_policy: + - WriteThrough: data is written to both the cache line + and to the block in the lower-level memory + - WriteBack: data is written only to the cache line and + the modified cache line is written to main + memory only when it is replaced |
