linux-kernel - Re: + work_on_cpu-rewrite-it-to-create-a-kernel-thread-on-demand.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-Id: <200902042116.01609.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:16:00 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, oleg@...hat.com,
	travis@....com, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mm-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + work_on_cpu-rewrite-it-to-create-a-kernel-thread-on-demand.patch  added to -mm tree

On Wednesday 04 February 2009 14:46:42 Andrew Morton wrote:
> These:
> 
> int rdmsr_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, u32 msr_no, u32 *l, u32 *h);
> int wrmsr_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, u32 msr_no, u32 l, u32 h);
> int rdmsr_safe_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, u32 msr_no, u32 *l, u32 *h);
> int wrmsr_safe_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, u32 msr_no, u32 l, u32 h);
> 
> already exist.  I don't think anything else needs to be done here?

Nope.  Well, it'd be nice if they just used a u64, but we can't fix the whole
kernel.

Thanks!
Rusty.
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