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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, akpm@osdl.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v5)
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:30:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ej93bdsg.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080418000634.GB5062@Krystal> (Mathieu Desnoyers's message of "Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:06:34 -0400")

Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> writes:
>
> It uses RCU-style updates and has been designed to be lockless from the
> ground up.

RCU is not necessarily NMI safe. In most cases RCU needs writer locks
which you cannot do with NMIs.

-Andi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-18 11:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20080417165839.GA25198@Krystal>
     [not found] ` <20080417165944.GB25198@Krystal>
2008-04-17 20:14   ` [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v5) Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-17 20:29     ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 21:16       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-17 21:26         ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-17 22:01     ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-18  0:06       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-18  8:07         ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-19 21:00           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-18 11:30         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-04-19 21:23           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 14:00     ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-21 14:22       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-21 14:51         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 15:08         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 15:08           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-21 15:21             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 15:47             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 17:23               ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-21 17:28                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-21 17:42                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 17:59                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-22 13:12                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-04-21 15:11           ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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