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From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Anthony Foiani <anthony.foiani@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uio/gen-pci: don't enable interrupts in ISR
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:33:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E424255.5060405@linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110809120206.GB524@redhat.com>

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Let's assume we start with e.g. io enable bit cleared.
> 
> 
>     user                                kernel
>  read config                               |
>  set io enable                             |
>      |                                  interrupt                                                
>      |                              read + set interrupt mask
>  write config back                         |
> 					write
> 
> 
> 
> We end up with io enable bit cleared. Locking around rmw
> that we have fixes this race.

Okay, forgot about the SMP case, sorry.

Sebastian

      reply	other threads:[~2011-08-10  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-04 20:46 [PATCH] uio/gen-pci: don't enable interrupts in ISR Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2011-08-04 21:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-08-05  0:15   ` Hans J. Koch
2011-08-08  6:24     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-08-08 17:19       ` Hans J. Koch
2011-08-09 11:37         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-08-09 18:53           ` Hans J. Koch
2011-08-10  8:40             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-08-23  0:49               ` [stable] " Greg KH
2011-08-23  8:40                 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2011-08-23 10:57                   ` Hans J. Koch
2011-08-23 11:00                     ` Hans J. Koch
2011-08-05 19:18   ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2011-08-08  6:40     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-08-09 11:43       ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2011-08-09 12:02         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-08-10  8:33           ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [this message]

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