From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux) Description of problem: L2 cache not detected in i686 at boot time - tualatin p3 smp systems do dot know if kernel is using L2 cache, regardless of detection. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.18-19.8-0 smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot up 2. read boot log 3. look for cache entries 4. only L1 (32K) detected Actual Results: same - no l2 cache Expected Results: l2 cache reporting 512K for cpu 0 & cpu 1 (no it's not turned off in the bios either) Additional info: bootlog output: <6>Memory: 2059968k/2097088k available (1451k kernel code, 32508k reserved, 1067k data, 200k init, 1179584k highmem) <6>Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) <6>Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) <6>Mount cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) <7>ramfs: mounted with options: <defaults> <7>ramfs: max_pages=258024 max_file_pages=0 max_inodes=0 max_dentries=258024 <6>Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) <4>Page-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) <7>CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 <6>CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K <7>CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 <6>Intel machine check architecture supported. <6>Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. <7>CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 <6>Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. <6>Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. <6>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. <4>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX <4>mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch.au) <4>mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel <7>CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 <6>CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K <7>CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 <6>Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. <7>CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 <7>CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 <4>CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1266MHz stepping 01 <4>per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 91.43 usecs.
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