linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/AMD: Fix cpu_llc

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Date:   Mon, 7 Nov 2016 08:31:21 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86/AMD: Fix cpu_llc_id for AMD Fam17h systems


* Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de> wrote:

> Lemme clean up the commit message a bit more and add tags:
> 
> ---
> From: Yazen Ghannam <Yazen.Ghannam@....com>
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 11:51:02 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] x86/AMD: Fix cpu_llc_id for AMD Fam17h systems
> 
> cpu_llc_id (Last Level Cache ID) derivation on AMD Fam17h has an
> underflow bug when extracting the socket_id value. It starts from 0
> so subtracting 1 from it will result in an invalid value. This breaks
> scheduling topology later on since the cpu_llc_id will be incorrect.
> 
> The APIC ID is preset in APICx020 for bits 3 and above: they contain the
> core complex, node and socket IDs.
> 
> The LLC is at the core complex level so we can find a unique cpu_llc_id
> by right shifting the APICID by 3 because then the least significant bit
> will be the Core Complex ID.

Same question as for the previous patch: what are the effects of the bug:

 - Outright bad scheduling?
 - Suboptimal scheduling?
 - Crash?
 - Something else?

Such information needs to be in commit messages, _especially_ when a Cc: stable 
tag is added as well.

Thanks,

	Ingo