Asynchronous IPI interface

This interface allows dynamic registration of IPI handlers with a constant argument and asynchronous triggering of interrupts.

ipi_register(func, arg)

Register an IPI handler func with an arbitrary argument arg. Returns a non-zero IPI identifier on success and zero on failure.

ipi_unregister(ipi_id)

Unregister the IPI handler identified by the ipi_id.

ipi_trigger(ipi_id, ci)

Trigger an IPI identified by ipi_id on a remote CPU specified by ci. This function must be called with the kernel preemption disabled and the target CPU must be remote.

Synchronous IPI interface

This interface provides capability to perform cross-calls, i.e. invoke an arbitrary function on a remote CPU. The invocations are performed synchronously and the caller must wait for completion. The cross-call is described by an IPI "message". The caller has to fill in an ipi_msg_t structure which has the following public members:

        ipi_func_t	func; 
        void		arg;

The func member specifies a function to invoke and arg is the argument to be passed to the function.

ipi_unicast(msg, ci)

Send an IPI to a remote CPU specified by ci.

ipi_multicast(msg, target)

Send IPIs to a CPU set specified by target.

ipi_broadcast(msg)

Send IPIs to all CPUs.

ipi_wait(msg)

Wait until all IPIs complete.

All described functions, except ipi_wait(), must be called with the kernel preemption disabled. All synchronous IPI invocations must be completed (wait for them with the ipi_wait() function) before the IPI message structure can be destroyed or new cross-call requests can be performed.