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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com,
	travis@sgi.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: + work_on_cpu-rewrite-it-to-create-a-kernel-thread-on-demand.patch  added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:16:00 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902042116.01609.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090203201642.057a07b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-03 10:58 + work_on_cpu-rewrite-it-to-create-a-kernel-thread-on-demand.patch added to -mm tree akpm
2009-02-03 12:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-03 16:58   ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-02-03 19:25     ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-04  3:58       ` Rusty Russell
2009-02-04  4:16         ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-04 10:46           ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-02-12 20:38       ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-12 20:48         ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-12 20:48           ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-12 22:08           ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-12 22:13             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-12 22:23               ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-12 23:04                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-12 22:20             ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-12 22:20               ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-13 21:21         ` Rusty Russell

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