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rdmsr_on_cpu, wrmsr_on_cpu
authorAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:48:11 +0000 (01:48 -0800)
committerDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:23:43 +0000 (14:23 -0500)
commitb077ffb3b767c3efb44d00b998385a9cb127255c
tree160369b5541142afedc20a97a9c89718550cf2a3
parent22f7bb0329a506f2fd61c14ce3c8bc632e08c732
rdmsr_on_cpu, wrmsr_on_cpu

There was OpenVZ specific bug rendering some cpufreq drivers unusable on SMP.
In short, when cpufreq code thinks it confined itself to needed cpu by means
of set_cpus_allowed() to execute rdmsr, some "virtual cpu" feature can migrate
process to anywhere.  This triggers bugons and does wrong things in general.

This got fixed by introducing rdmsr_on_cpu and wrmsr_on_cpu executing rdmsr
and wrmsr on given physical cpu by means of smp_call_function_single().

Dave Jones mentioned cpufreq might be not only user of rdmsr_on_cpu() and
wrmsr_on_cpu(), so I'm putting them into arch/{i386,x86_64}/lib/ .

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
arch/i386/lib/Makefile
arch/i386/lib/msr-on-cpu.c [new file with mode: 0644]
arch/x86_64/lib/Makefile
arch/x86_64/lib/msr-on-cpu.c [new file with mode: 0644]
include/asm-i386/msr.h
include/asm-x86_64/msr.h