summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu47
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions
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