Re: x86, amd: Get multi-node CPU info from NodeId MSR instead of PCI config space

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Use newly introduced NodeId MSR to get NodeId and number of nodes per 
> processor.

What will happen on CPUs that dont have this MSR and got this info from 
the PCI config space:

>  static void __cpuinit amd_fixup_dcm(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
>  {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PCI
> -	u32 t, cpn;
> -	u8 n, n_id;
>  	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
>  
>  	/* fixup topology information only once for a core */
>  	if (cpu_has(c, X86_FEATURE_AMD_DCM))
>  		return;
>  
> -	/* check for multi-node processor on boot cpu */
> -	t = read_pci_config(0, 24, 3, 0xe8);
> -	if (!(t & (1 << 29)))
>  		return;
>  
>  	set_cpu_cap(c, X86_FEATURE_AMD_DCM);

are there any such CPUs? I.e. we want to know the effect of this patch 
on various models of AMD CPUs - is the change really .32 safe? Does it 
solve any problem that makes it .32 material versus being for .33?

	Ingo