linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH resend] x86, amd: Get multi-node CPU info from NodeId MSR instead of PCI config space

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Date:	Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:00:36 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@...glemail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] x86, amd: Get multi-node CPU info from NodeId MSR instead of PCI config space

That's nice.  It should be in the code, not in the commit message.

"Borislav Petkov" <borislav.petkov@....com> wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 08:31:50PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> 
>> * Andreas Herrmann <herrmann.der.user@...glemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > +	rdmsrl(0xc001100c, value);
>> 
>> Dont we want some nice, meaningfully named symbolic constant here, instead of 
>> 0xc001100c?
>
>The MSR name is actually in the commit msg, maybe something like
>MSR_F10H_NODE_ID.
>
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