This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: x86-cpu-change-type-of-x86_cache_size-variable-to-unsigned-int.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From 24dbc6000f4b9b0ef5a9daecb161f1907733765a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" garsilva@embeddedor.com Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:22:08 -0600 Subject: x86/cpu: Change type of x86_cache_size variable to unsigned int
From: Gustavo A. R. Silva garsilva@embeddedor.com
commit 24dbc6000f4b9b0ef5a9daecb161f1907733765a upstream.
Currently, x86_cache_size is of type int, which makes no sense as we will never have a valid cache size equal or less than 0. So instead of initializing this variable to -1, it can perfectly be initialized to 0 and use it as an unsigned variable instead.
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva garsilva@embeddedor.com Cc: Borislav Petkov bp@alien8.de Cc: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1464429 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213192208.GA26414@embeddedor.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c | 2 +- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c | 4 ++-- 4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ struct cpuinfo_x86 { char x86_vendor_id[16]; char x86_model_id[64]; /* in KB - valid for CPUS which support this call: */ - int x86_cache_size; + unsigned int x86_cache_size; int x86_cache_alignment; /* In bytes */ /* Cache QoS architectural values: */ int x86_cache_max_rmid; /* max index */ --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ static void identify_cpu(struct cpuinfo_ int i;
c->loops_per_jiffy = loops_per_jiffy; - c->x86_cache_size = -1; + c->x86_cache_size = 0; c->x86_vendor = X86_VENDOR_UNKNOWN; c->x86_model = c->x86_stepping = 0; /* So far unknown... */ c->x86_vendor_id[0] = '\0'; /* Unset */ --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/microcode/intel.c @@ -1132,7 +1132,7 @@ static struct microcode_ops microcode_in
static int __init calc_llc_size_per_core(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) { - u64 llc_size = c->x86_cache_size * 1024; + u64 llc_size = c->x86_cache_size * 1024ULL;
do_div(llc_size, c->x86_max_cores);
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c @@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ static int show_cpuinfo(struct seq_file }
/* Cache size */ - if (c->x86_cache_size >= 0) - seq_printf(m, "cache size\t: %d KB\n", c->x86_cache_size); + if (c->x86_cache_size) + seq_printf(m, "cache size\t: %u KB\n", c->x86_cache_size);
show_cpuinfo_core(m, c, cpu); show_cpuinfo_misc(m, c);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from garsilva@embeddedor.com are
queue-4.9/x86-cpu-change-type-of-x86_cache_size-variable-to-unsigned-int.patch