Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] smp: add function to execute a function synchronously on a cpu

2016-04-06 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 04:17:43PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote: > On some hardware models (e.g. Dell Studio 1555 laptop) some hardware > related functions (e.g. SMIs) are to be executed on physical cpu 0 > only. Instead of open coding such a functionality multiple times in > the kernel add a service

[PATCH v5 3/6] smp: add function to execute a function synchronously on a cpu

2016-04-06 Thread Juergen Gross
On some hardware models (e.g. Dell Studio 1555 laptop) some hardware related functions (e.g. SMIs) are to be executed on physical cpu 0 only. Instead of open coding such a functionality multiple times in the kernel add a service function for this purpose. This will enable the possibility to take sp