* Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> wrote: > Lemme clean up the commit message a bit more and add tags: > > --- > From: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghan...@amd.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