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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [DOCUMENTATION] Revised Unreliable Kernel Locking Guide
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 15:44:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031212154401.GA10584@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031212052812.E80972C085@lists.samba.org>

On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:24:18PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
 > OK, I've put the html version up for your reading pleasure: the diff
 > is quite extensive and hard to read.
 > 
 > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/kernel-locking/
 > 
 > Feedback welcome,

Hi Rusty,
 Might be worth mentioning in the Per-CPU data section that code doing
operations on CPU registers (MSRs and the like) needs to be protected
by an explicit preempt_disable() / preempt_enable() pair if it's doing
operations that it expects to run on a specific CPU.

For examples, see arch/i386/kernel/msr.c & cpuid.c

		Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-12 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-12  5:24 [DOCUMENTATION] Revised Unreliable Kernel Locking Guide Rusty Russell
2003-12-12 15:44 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-12-12 16:25   ` Keith Owens
2003-12-12 18:25     ` Dave Jones
2003-12-13  0:28       ` Keith Owens
2003-12-12 21:05   ` Rob Love
2003-12-15  2:28   ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-12 19:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-12-13  3:16   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-12-15  5:17     ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-15  5:17   ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-15 22:22     ` Paul E. McKenney
2003-12-16  6:32       ` Rusty Russell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-13  3:15 Manfred Spraul

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