From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
patches@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [18/26] i386: Update smp_call_function* comments
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:46:27 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070429234627.E1E55150F2@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070430146.588463000@suse.de>
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Update documentation for i386 smp_call_function* functions.
As reported by Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
[ I've posted this before but it seems to have been lost along the way. ]
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
---
arch/i386/kernel/smp.c | 25 +++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
===================================================================
Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
+++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
@@ -554,8 +554,10 @@ static void __smp_call_function(void (*f
* @info: An arbitrary pointer to pass to the function.
* @wait: If true, wait (atomically) until function has completed on other CPUs.
*
- * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code. Does not return until
- * remote CPUs are nearly ready to execute <<func>> or are or have finished.
+ * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code.
+ *
+ * If @wait is true, then returns once @func has returned; otherwise
+ * it returns just before the target cpu calls @func.
*
* You must not call this function with disabled interrupts or from a
* hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler.
@@ -617,11 +619,13 @@ int native_smp_call_function_mask(cpumas
* smp_call_function(): Run a function on all other CPUs.
* @func: The function to run. This must be fast and non-blocking.
* @info: An arbitrary pointer to pass to the function.
- * @nonatomic: currently unused.
+ * @nonatomic: Unused.
* @wait: If true, wait (atomically) until function has completed on other CPUs.
*
- * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code. Does not return until
- * remote CPUs are nearly ready to execute <<func>> or are or have executed.
+ * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code.
+ *
+ * If @wait is true, then returns once @func has returned; otherwise
+ * it returns just before the target cpu calls @func.
*
* You must not call this function with disabled interrupts or from a
* hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler.
@@ -633,17 +637,18 @@ int smp_call_function(void (*func) (void
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(smp_call_function);
-/*
+/**
* smp_call_function_single - Run a function on another CPU
+ * @cpu: The target CPU. Cannot be the calling CPU.
* @func: The function to run. This must be fast and non-blocking.
* @info: An arbitrary pointer to pass to the function.
- * @nonatomic: Currently unused.
+ * @nonatomic: Unused.
* @wait: If true, wait until function has completed on other CPUs.
*
- * Retrurns 0 on success, else a negative status code.
+ * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code.
*
- * Does not return until the remote CPU is nearly ready to execute <func>
- * or is or has executed.
+ * If @wait is true, then returns once @func has returned; otherwise
+ * it returns just before the target cpu calls @func.
*/
int smp_call_function_single(int cpu, void (*func) (void *info), void *info,
int nonatomic, int wait)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-29 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-29 23:46 [PATCH] [0/26] x86 candidate patches for review IV: more misc patches Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [1/26] i386: Add smp_ops interface Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [2/26] i386: Add machine_ops interface to abstract halting and rebooting Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [4/26] i386: Remove unneeded externs in nmi.c Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [6/26] x86: fix amd64-agp aperture validation Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [7/26] x86_64: Use X86_EFLAGS_IF in x86-64/irqflags.h Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [8/26] x86_64: fix arithmetic in comment Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [9/26] x86_64: Fix vmalloc_32 to really allocate <4GB on 64bit platforms Andi Kleen
2007-04-30 5:01 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-04-30 5:49 ` Borislav Petkov
2007-04-30 8:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [10/26] i386: Clean up asm-i386/bugs.h Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [11/26] i386: clean up identify_cpu Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [14/26] x86_64: Clean up asm-x86_64/bugs.h Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [15/26] x86: Don't use MWAIT on AMD Family 10 Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [16/26] i386: Enable machine check for " Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [17/26] i386: Use menuconfig objects - APM Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [19/26] i386: Enable bank 0 on non K7 Athlon Andi Kleen
2007-04-30 0:09 ` Dave Jones
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [20/26] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [21/26] x86: Clean up x86 control register and MSR macros (corrected) Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [22/26] i386: Remove smp_alt_instructions Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [23/26] i386: Allow boot-time disable of SMP altinstructions Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [24/26] x86_64: Fix x86_64 compilation with DEBUG_SIG on Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [25/26] x86_64: x86-64 system crashes when no memory populating Node 0 Andi Kleen
2007-04-29 23:46 ` [PATCH] [26/26] i386: i386 separate hardware-defined TSS from Linux additions Andi Kleen
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