linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/21] amd64_edac: add msr accessors operating on all cpus

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Message-ID: <20090428192305.GA5008@aftab>
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:23:05 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dougthompson@...ssion.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/21] amd64_edac: add msr accessors operating on all
	cpus

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:21:07AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'm all confused.  We interrupt _all_ CPUs and get each one of them to
> write to cmd.data[0] and cmd.data[1].  So what we end up returning is
> the result which was provided by the last CPU which got there,
> whichever CPU that was.
> 
> Am I mising something, or is this all totally screwy?

Gaa, I had fixed those but the patch somehow got lost. Will redo and resend the
whole patchset tomorrow.

Thanks.

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