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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2014-02-24 16:40:02 +0100
committerJens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>2014-02-24 14:47:15 -0800
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smp: Rename __smp_call_function_single() to smp_call_function_single_async()
The name __smp_call_function_single() doesn't tell much about the properties of this function, especially when compared to smp_call_function_single(). The comments above the implementation are also misleading. The main point of this function is actually not to be able to embed the csd in an object. This is actually a requirement that result from the purpose of this function which is to raise an IPI asynchronously. As such it can be called with interrupts disabled. And this feature comes at the cost of the caller who then needs to serialize the IPIs on this csd. Lets rename the function and enhance the comments so that they reflect these properties. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/smp.h b/include/linux/smp.h
index b410a1f..633f5ed 100644
--- a/include/linux/smp.h
+++ b/include/linux/smp.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ void on_each_cpu_cond(bool (*cond_func)(int cpu, void *info),
smp_call_func_t func, void *info, bool wait,
gfp_t gfp_flags);
-int __smp_call_function_single(int cpu, struct call_single_data *csd);
+int smp_call_function_single_async(int cpu, struct call_single_data *csd);
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
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