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Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2014 15:28:43 -0600
From:	Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@...il.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:	Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@...hat.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
	linux-pci <linux-pci@...r.kernel.org>,
	Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@....com>,
	Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@....com>,
	kim.naru@....com, daniel@...ascale.com,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, x86 <x86@...nel.org>, sp@...ascale.com,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] PCI: Remove redundant 'quirk_amd_nb_node'

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 08:53:46PM -0600, Myron Stowe wrote:
>> With the amd_bus.c updates to support additional AMD processors (11h, 12h,
>> 14h 15h  and 16h) 'quirk_amd_nb_node' seems to be redundant.  This patch
>> removes it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Myron Stowe <myron.stowe@...hat.com>
>
> Good idea. Has this been tested, though? There are a bunch of places
> using dev_to_node() which this quirk corrects, especially 'local_cpus'
> in a bunch of sysfs nodes in the PCI hierarchy /sys/devices/pci*.

My testing was related to the PCI hierarchy /sys/devices/pci* as this
was the root issue I'm trying to get resolved.

Daniel also responded - Thanks Dan! - indicating that the changes are
ok related to his concerns.

>
> We want to make sure this doesn't break that and other dev_to_node()
> callsites.

Agreed, which is at least in part why this is a separate patch.

I'm going to run some more testing and then post with most of your
comments incorporated.  Thanks again for the review.

Myron
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
>
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