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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen: disable interrupts before saving in percpu
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:15:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4988FA4A.6080002@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4988EE04.7090006@kernel.org>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>   
>> xen_mc_batch has a small preempt race where it takes the address of a
>> percpu variable immediately before disabling interrupts, thereby
>> leaving a small window in which we may migrate to another cpu and save
>> the flags in the wrong percpu variable.  Disable interrupts before
>> saving the old flags in a percpu.
>>     
>
> Applied to tip:core/xen, thanks!

Can you push this Linusward too?

Thanks,
    J

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04  2:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-04  0:01 [PATCH] xen: disable interrupts before saving in percpu Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-04  1:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-04  2:15   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2009-02-04  2:21     ` H. Peter Anvin

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