mips_cps_numcores(9)

🦋 mips_cps_numcores(9) — Kernel API Manual 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

mips_cps_numcores — return the number of cores present in a cluster ✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

okay so the signature is literally this, no cap:

unsigned int mips_cps_numcores (unsigned int cluster );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• cluster — the ID of the cluster whose core count we want, fr fr 💅

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what does it actually do? It returns the value of the PCORES field of the GCR_CONFIG register plus 1 — or 0 if no Coherence Manager is present. That's it, that's the whole vibe 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Kernel file ./arch/mips/include/asm/mips-cps.h — and the whole friend group:

• mips_cps_numclusters(9)
• mips_cps_cluster_config(9)
• mips_cps_numiocu(9)
• mips_cps_numvps(9)
• mips_cps_multicluster_cpus(9)
• mips_cps_first_online_in_cluster(9)

that's the page, bestie 🫶 — source/version: ./arch/mips/include/asm, date: October 2026. periodt 👑