[PATCH] x86: when L3 is present show its size in /proc/cpuinfo

The code that prints the cache size assumes that L3 always lives in chipset
and is shared across CPUs.  Which is not really true.

I think all the cachesizes reported by cpuid are in the processor itself.
The attached patch changes the code to reflect that.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
index c802206..7cc84a4 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
@@ -278,13 +278,7 @@ unsigned int __devinit init_intel_cacheinfo(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
                if ( l3 )
                        printk(KERN_INFO "CPU: L3 cache: %dK\n", l3);
 
-               /*
-                * This assumes the L3 cache is shared; it typically lives in
-                * the northbridge.  The L1 caches are included by the L2
-                * cache, and so should not be included for the purpose of
-                * SMP switching weights.
-                */
-               c->x86_cache_size = l2 ? l2 : (l1i+l1d);
+               c->x86_cache_size = l3 ? l3 : (l2 ? l2 : (l1i+l1d));
        }
 
        return l2;