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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: Jinsong Liu <jinsong.liu@intel.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>, Xin Li <xin.li@intel.com>,
	Yunhong Jiang <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
Subject: RE: Re: [PATCH] Fix cpu offline bug
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:14:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D760F8002000078000351E8@vpn.id2.novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BC00F5384FCFC9499AF06F92E8B78A9E1FABB28525@shsmsx502.ccr.corp.intel.com>

>>> On 08.03.11 at 10:47, "Liu, Jinsong" <jinsong.liu@intel.com> wrote:
> Jan, I'm not quite clear your meaning.
> Why and where need to insert barrier, or volatile cpu_state?
 
     while ( (seen_state = cpu_state) != CPU_STATE_DEAD )
     {
+        barrier();
         BUG_ON(seen_state != CPU_STATE_DYING);
         mdelay(100);
         cpu_relax();

Without this, the compiler is free to eliminate "seen_state" in favor
of reading "cpu_state" twice (irrespective of the optimizer very
likely trying to do exactly the opposite).

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-08 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-04 10:22 [PATCH] Fix cpu offline bug Liu, Jinsong
2011-03-04 10:49 ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-08  8:52   ` Jan Beulich
2011-03-08  9:47     ` Liu, Jinsong
2011-03-08 10:14       ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2011-03-08 15:36         ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-05 11:40 ` Keir Fraser
2011-03-05 15:10   ` Liu, Jinsong
2011-03-05 15:57     ` Keir Fraser

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