2006-03-07 01:40:28

by Shaohua Li

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Subject: [PATCH]cpuid.4 doesn't need cpu level 5

Detecting cache line using cpuid.4, cpuid level 4 is enough.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<[email protected]>
---

linux-2.6.16-rc5-root/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c~cpuid4 arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
--- linux-2.6.16-rc5/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c~cpuid4 2006-03-05 07:41:36.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.16-rc5-root/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c 2006-03-05 07:42:45.000000000 +0800
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ unsigned int __cpuinit init_intel_cachei
unsigned int new_l1d = 0, new_l1i = 0; /* Cache sizes from cpuid(4) */
unsigned int new_l2 = 0, new_l3 = 0, i; /* Cache sizes from cpuid(4) */

- if (c->cpuid_level > 4) {
+ if (c->cpuid_level > 3) {
static int is_initialized;

if (is_initialized == 0) {
_