Re: [-mm patch] {rd,wr}msr_on_cpu SMP=n optimization

From: Dave Jones
Date: Mon Feb 19 2007 - 19:32:28 EST


On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:21:45AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:14:34PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:07:13AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >...
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> > > void rdmsr_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, u32 msr_no, u32 *l, u32 *h);
> > > void wrmsr_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, u32 msr_no, u32 l, u32 h);
> > > +#else /* CONFIG_SMP */
> > > +static inline void rdmsr_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, u32 msr_no, u32 *l, u32 *h)
> > > +{
> > > + rdmsr(msr_no, *l, *h);
> > > +}
> > > +static inline void wrmsr_on_cpu(unsigned int cpu, u32 msr_no, u32 l, u32 h)
> > > +{
> > > + wrmsr(msr_no, l, h);
> > > +}
> > > +#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
> >
> > BUG_ON(cpu!=smp_processor_id()) maybe?
>
> This is the CONFIG_SMP=n case.

Yes. If someone is asking for the MSR on a specific CPU in UP mode,
it's a bug.

Dave

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