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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Martin Galvan <omgalvan.86@gmail.com>
Cc: Bharath Vedartham <linux.bhar@gmail.com>,
	kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: Setting CPU affinity for current process on kernel module?
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 15:13:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190913141332.GA453533@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN19L9GsAtCLU2YJe509rdtVRMqu6kw=+E5=JGW8e5tJSV+Lxg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 09:56:24AM -0300, Martin Galvan wrote:
> El vie., 13 sept. 2019 a las 9:55, Greg KH (<greg@kroah.com>) escribió:
> > And doing what with that information?  We have a msr driver for
> > userspace access to those values, does that not work correctly for you?
> 
> My use case requires this to be done in kernel space.

So, again, I hate to ask but _why_ do you need access to the msr from
within the kernel?  What useful information can you do with that?  Do
you have a pointer to your code anywhere?

thanks,

greg k-h

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-13 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-11 18:52 Setting CPU affinity for current process on kernel module? Martin Galvan
2019-09-11 19:16 ` Bharath Vedartham
2019-09-11 19:19   ` Martin Galvan
2019-09-12  9:26     ` Bharath Vedartham
2019-09-12 14:03       ` Martin Galvan
2019-09-13  4:50         ` Greg KH
2019-09-13 12:43           ` Martin Galvan
2019-09-13 12:55             ` Greg KH
2019-09-13 12:56               ` Martin Galvan
2019-09-13 14:13                 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-09-19  5:43                   ` R. Engür Pişirici

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