Early alpha processors cannot write a single byte or short; they read 8
bytes, modify the value in registers and write back 8 bytes.
This could cause race condition in the structure dm_io - if the fields
flags and io_count are modified simultaneously.
Fix this bug by using 32-bit flags if we are
On 3/28/22 18:34, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
Early alpha processors cannot write a single byte or short; they read 8
bytes, modify the value in registers and write back 8 bytes.
This could cause race condition in the structure dm_io - if the fields
flags and io_count are modified simultaneously.
Fi
On Tue, 29 Mar 2022, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> On 3/28/22 18:34, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > Early alpha processors cannot write a single byte or short; they read 8
> > bytes, modify the value in registers and write back 8 bytes.
> >
> > This could cause race condition in the structure dm_io - i