Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/msr: add on cpu read/modify/write function

From: Jacob Pan
Date: Tue Jan 12 2016 - 20:16:54 EST


On Sun, 20 Dec 2015 14:28:48 +0100 (CET)
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So this is a copy of the above !SMP inline. What's wrong with
> providing:
>
> int rmwmsrl_safe(msr_no, clear_mask, set_mask)
>
> in x86/lib/msr.c and make the !SMP variant of rdmsrl_safe_on_cpu()
> and that variant for the SMP case a simple wrapper around it?
>
> static void remote_rmwmsrl_safe(void *info)
> {
> struct msr_action *ma = info;
>
> return rmwmsrl_safe(ma->msr, ma->clear_mask, ma->set_mask);
> }
>
> No gotos, no pointless code duplication. Just simple.
much better, just sent new code in v2. Sorry for the delay.

Thanks