Re: [PATCH v2] getauxval.3: Add new cache geometry entries

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hello Raphael,

On 9/24/19 3:11 PM, Raphael Moreira Zinsly wrote:
> Add entries for the new cache geometry values of the auxiliary vectors
> that got included in the kernel.

Thanks the rewording, and also the explanation of the geometry 
value.

I've applied the patch.

Thanks,

Michael

> Signed-off-by: Raphael Moreira Zinsly <rzinsly@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  man3/getauxval.3 | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/man3/getauxval.3 b/man3/getauxval.3
> index 794bc97b5..b78a63225 100644
> --- a/man3/getauxval.3
> +++ b/man3/getauxval.3
> @@ -123,6 +123,34 @@ The instruction cache block size.
>  .\" .TP
>  .\" .BR AT_NOTELF
>  .TP
> +.\" Kernel commit 98a5f361b8625c6f4841d6ba013bbf0e80d08147
> +.BR AT_L1D_CACHEGEOMETRY
> +Geometry of the L1 data cache, encoded with the cache line size in
> +bytes in the bottom 16 bits and the cache associativity in the next 16
> +bits. The associativity is such that if N is the 16-bit value, the cache
> +is N-way set associative.
> +.TP
> +.BR AT_L1D_CACHESIZE
> +The L1 data cache size.
> +.TP
> +.BR AT_L1I_CACHEGEOMETRY
> +Geometry of the L1 instruction cache, encoded as for AT_L1D_CACHEGEOMETRY.
> +.TP
> +.BR AT_L1I_CACHESIZE
> +The L1 instruction cache size.
> +.TP
> +.BR AT_L2_CACHEGEOMETRY
> +Geometry of the L2 cache, encoded as for AT_L1D_CACHEGEOMETRY.
> +.TP
> +.BR AT_L2_CACHESIZE
> +The L2 cache size.
> +.TP
> +.BR AT_L3_CACHEGEOMETRY
> +Geometry of the L3 cache, encoded as for AT_L1D_CACHEGEOMETRY.
> +.TP
> +.BR AT_L3_CACHESIZE
> +The L3 cache size.
> +.TP
>  .BR AT_PAGESZ
>  The system page size (the same value returned by
>  .IR sysconf(_SC_PAGESIZE) ).
> 


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