Processor affinity settings for Linux kernel modules?

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Published on 2010-06-13T18:53:17Z Indexed on 2010/06/13 19:02 UTC
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In Windows, I can set the processor affinity of driver code using KeSetSystemAffinityThread, and check which processor my code is running on using KeGetCurrentProcessorNumber.

I'm trying to do something similar in a Linux kernel module, but the only affinity calls I can see are for userland processes. Is there any way to do this, so that I can run assembly code on a specific processor? (i.e. sgdt)

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