running code on all CPUs

[David Xu]

On Thursday 05 October 2006 05:40, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently writing kernel code to use MCA (machine check architecture)
> in order to detect things like ECC errors.  As part of this, I need to run
> code on all CPUs periodically to check some status registers.  Where is the
> best place to do this?  It doesn't seem that I can use regular kernel
> threads since I can't specify a CPU binding with that interface.  I've
> thought about hooking a function call to either the beginning of
> idle_proc() or somewhere in mi_switch(), but neither solution seems optimal
> since there are no guarantees when idle_proc() is ran and mi_switch() seems
> like a really bad idea from a performance standpoint.  Suggestions?
>
> Also, are there any locking pitfalls or other issues I should be aware of
> when writing code to run in either idle_proc() or mi_switch()?
>
> -Jon

AFAIK, you can use scheduler API, the sched_bind() moves current thread to
a specific CPU, hope this helps.

David Xu