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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2007-05-02 19:27:12 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-05-02 19:27:12 +0200
commitd479d2cc0802d5c8546a6a7492646e08228effd5 (patch)
tree011ce3f6578b5b9e90e020e017baf64a7e903ed1 /arch/i386
parent7946331856f99bdb00b0a0a53e97d9b621546622 (diff)
[PATCH] i386: Update smp_call_function* comments
Update documentation for i386 smp_call_function* functions. As reported by Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> [ I've posted this before but it seems to have been lost along the way. ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/smp.c25
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c b/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
index fe38b49a122..9d84f6f001b 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
@@ -554,8 +554,10 @@ static void __smp_call_function(void (*func) (void *info), void *info,
* @info: An arbitrary pointer to pass to the function.
* @wait: If true, wait (atomically) until function has completed on other CPUs.
*
- * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code. Does not return until
- * remote CPUs are nearly ready to execute <<func>> or are or have finished.
+ * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code.
+ *
+ * If @wait is true, then returns once @func has returned; otherwise
+ * it returns just before the target cpu calls @func.
*
* You must not call this function with disabled interrupts or from a
* hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler.
@@ -617,11 +619,13 @@ int native_smp_call_function_mask(cpumask_t mask,
* smp_call_function(): Run a function on all other CPUs.
* @func: The function to run. This must be fast and non-blocking.
* @info: An arbitrary pointer to pass to the function.
- * @nonatomic: currently unused.
+ * @nonatomic: Unused.
* @wait: If true, wait (atomically) until function has completed on other CPUs.
*
- * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code. Does not return until
- * remote CPUs are nearly ready to execute <<func>> or are or have executed.
+ * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code.
+ *
+ * If @wait is true, then returns once @func has returned; otherwise
+ * it returns just before the target cpu calls @func.
*
* You must not call this function with disabled interrupts or from a
* hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler.
@@ -633,17 +637,18 @@ int smp_call_function(void (*func) (void *info), void *info, int nonatomic,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(smp_call_function);
-/*
+/**
* smp_call_function_single - Run a function on another CPU
+ * @cpu: The target CPU. Cannot be the calling CPU.
* @func: The function to run. This must be fast and non-blocking.
* @info: An arbitrary pointer to pass to the function.
- * @nonatomic: Currently unused.
+ * @nonatomic: Unused.
* @wait: If true, wait until function has completed on other CPUs.
*
- * Retrurns 0 on success, else a negative status code.
+ * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code.
*
- * Does not return until the remote CPU is nearly ready to execute <func>
- * or is or has executed.
+ * If @wait is true, then returns once @func has returned; otherwise
+ * it returns just before the target cpu calls @func.
*/
int smp_call_function_single(int cpu, void (*func) (void *info), void *info,
int nonatomic, int wait)