Setting CPU affinity for current process on kernel module?

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 11:03:20AM -0300, Martin Galvan wrote:
> El jue., 12 sept. 2019 a las 6:26, Bharath Vedartham
> (<linux.bhar at gmail.com>) escribió:
> > Just to be clear, What do you mean by current process. Is it the process
> > which is executing the kernel module? That would be a kernel thread I
> > believe or do you want to be able to set the cpu affinity for any
> > process given its PID?
> > And are you looking at setting CPU affinity of kernel threads or user
> > threads.
> 
> Sorry, I wasn't clear: I want to set the affinity of 'current', which
> is a kernel thread.

I really hate to ask, but _why_ do you feel that this is the correct
solution to your problem?  What is the problem you are attempting to
solve by doing this?

thanks,

greg k-h