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From: "David Mosberger-Tang" <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:33:50 +0000
Subject: Re: Fix race in the accessed/dirty bit handlers
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On 3/9/06, Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:

> The manual states that serialization is only necessary before a data
> access uses the mapping. We do not use the mapping in the function we are
> discussing and I would think that the rfi is certainly serialization
> enough.

This is correct.

  --david
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