linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/amd_node: Fix AMD root device caching

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Message-ID: <20251021141500.GDaPeVZJ8MaPbtTYv_@fat_crate.local>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:15:00 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@....com>
Cc: x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>,
	Filip Barczyk <filip.barczyk@...o.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/amd_node: Fix AMD root device caching

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 09:37:45AM -0400, Yazen Ghannam wrote:
> It's correct that one of the root devices will be on bus 0x0. But that
> device will be part of AMD node 0. So we still need to pick a root
> device for the other, if any, AMD nodes in the system.
> 
> For example, a system with 2 AMD nodes could have this:
> Node 0 : 0x00 0x07 0x0e 0x15
> Node 1 : 0x1c 0x23 0x2a 0x31

Aha, so next question: isn't there a way to figure out which is the *first*
PCI bus of a AMD node? My gut feeling tells me there should be some info
somewhere which we can use...

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    Boris.

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