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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Cc: kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	christoffer dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>,
	marc zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH kvm-unit-tests] arm: fix crash when caches are off
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:47:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5418315B.6020201@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1003075385.5021814.1410871383104.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com>

Il 16/09/2014 14:43, Andrew Jones ha scritto:
> I don't think we need to worry about this case. AFAIU, enabling the
> caches for a particular cpu shouldn't require any synchronization.
> So we should be able to do
> 
>     enable caches
>     spin_lock
>     start other processors
>     spin_unlock

Ok, I'll test and apply your patch then.

Once you change the code to enable caches, please consider hanging on
spin_lock with caches disabled.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-16 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-16  2:06 [PATCH kvm-unit-tests] arm: fix crash when caches are off Andrew Jones
2014-09-16  8:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 12:12   ` Andrew Jones
2014-09-16 12:28     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-16 12:43       ` Andrew Jones
2014-09-16 12:47         ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-09-16 12:51           ` Andrew Jones
2014-09-16 14:38             ` Andrew Jones
2014-09-16 18:04               ` Andrew Jones
2014-09-16 12:57           ` Andrew Jones
2014-09-26  7:51             ` Christoffer Dall
2014-10-30 15:59               ` Andrew Jones
2014-09-16 12:48         ` Andrew Jones
2014-09-18 10:36 ` Paolo Bonzini

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