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    Subject[PATCH v2 0/6] Support calling functions on dedicated physical cpu
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    Some hardware (e.g. Dell Studio laptops) require special functions to
    be called on physical cpu 0 in order to avoid occasional hangs. When
    running as dom0 under Xen this could be achieved only via special boot
    parameters (vcpu pinning) limiting the hypervisor in it's scheduling
    decisions.

    This patch series is adding a generic function to be able to temporarily
    pin a (virtual) cpu to a dedicated physical cpu for executing above
    mentioned functions on that specific cpu. The drivers (dcdbas and i8k)
    requiring this functionality are modified accordingly.

    Changes in V2:
    - instead of manipulating the allowed set of cpus use cpu specific
    workqueue as requested by Peter Zijlstra
    - add include/linux/hypervisor.h to hide architecture specific stuff
    from generic kernel cod


    Juergen Gross (6):
    xen: sync xen header
    smp: add function to execute a function synchronously on a physical
    cpu
    dcdbas: make use of smp_call_sync_on_phys_cpu()
    hwmon: use smp_call_sync_on_phys_cpu() for dell-smm i8k
    virt, sched: add cpu pinning to smp_call_sync_on_phys_cpu()
    xen: add xen_pin_vcpu() to support calling functions on a dedicated
    pcpu

    MAINTAINERS | 1 +
    arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 9 ++++
    arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 40 +++++++++++++++
    drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c | 46 ++++++++----------
    drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 27 +++++-----
    include/linux/hypervisor.h | 17 +++++++
    include/linux/smp.h | 2 +
    include/xen/interface/sched.h | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
    kernel/smp.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++
    kernel/up.c | 18 +++++++
    10 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
    create mode 100644 include/linux/hypervisor.h

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    2.6.2

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