From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754739AbZBDKqT (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 05:46:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752321AbZBDKqI (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 05:46:08 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:54214 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752207AbZBDKqF (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 05:46:05 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Andrew Morton 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (Linux/2.6.27-11-generic; KDE/4.2.0; i686; ; ) Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Weisbecker?= , mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, oleg@redhat.com, travis@sgi.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org References: <200902031058.n13AwOoK016719@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <200902041428.12059.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20090203201642.057a07b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090203201642.057a07b9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902042116.01609.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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.