Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 10:47:16 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, npiggin@suse.de,
       linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, jeremy@goop.org, mingo@elte.hu,
       paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/10] arm: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls
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On Mon, Jun 02 2008, Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:58:20AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > This converts arm to use the new helpers for smp_call_function() and
> > friends, and adds support for smp_call_function_single().
> 
> > +void arch_send_call_function_ipi(cpumask_t mask)
> >  {
> > -	return smp_call_function_on_cpu(func, info, retry, wait,
> > -					cpu_online_map);
> > +	send_ipi_message(mask, IPI_CALL_FUNC);
> >  }
> 
> Can things like the above be inline functions to be included in the
> generic code?

Sure, it could be put asm/smp.h for the supported archs.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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