On 12/03/2013 12:01 PM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
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>> followed by whatever synchronization necessary to make it globally visible.
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> Could you explain what this synchronization should actually do ?
>
That is architecture-dependent. On x86 it requires each CPU on which
this code is visible to be IPId, on others it involves complex icache
flushing protocols.
-hpa
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