Re: [PATCH for review] [26/145] x86_64: Add initalization of theRDTSCP auxilliary values

[Oleg Verych]

Andi Kleen:
> ---
>  arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c |    2 +
>  arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c    |   47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
>  include/asm-x86_64/proto.h   |    1
>  3 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
> +++ linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c
...
> +static int __cpuinit
> +time_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
>  {
> -	char *timename;
> -	char *gtod;
> +	unsigned cpu = (unsigned long) hcpu;

Is this some kind of "endian magic" ? I mean getting high or low word of 64 
pointer to 32 variable ? Why cast just with (unsigned) doesn't work ?

> +	if (action == CPU_ONLINE &&
> +		cpu_has(&cpu_data[cpu], X86_FEATURE_RDTSCP)) {
> +		unsigned p;
> +		p = smp_processor_id() | (cpu_to_node(smp_processor_id())<<12);

Is this code runs under SMP ? I couldn't figure that out.

> +		write_rdtscp_aux(p);
> +	}
> +	return NOTIFY_DONE;
> +}

Thanks.

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