Re: [PATCH 1/11] Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 10:47:52 EST


Peter Zijlstra wrote:
Perhaps we need a new flag for failable async IPIs (or better, API). I'm pretty sure no one uses s_c_f_s() from irq disabled context on x86, since it will WARN_ON(irqs_disabled()).

Yeah, no current users, but that doesn't say I don't want to add new
ones ;-

I suggest having a new API for that, I dislike long tails of flag arguments.

smp_call_function_single_async()?

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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