On Sunday 06 May 2007, Wink Saville wrote:
+Atomic Code Execution (ACE) allows code to execute as if it was
+surrounded by spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore without
+requiring actual access to the processor flags register.
I guess you mean spin_{un,}lock_irq here, right? The
On Sunday 06 May 2007, Wink Saville wrote:
Thus code
+executing within the ACE area can also be executed from user space or
+kernel space. This is accomplished by using spin locks when executing
+within the ACE area and changes to arch/x86_64/kernel/entry.S such that
+when an
ACE, is an acronym for Atomic Code Execution and provides
spin_lock_irqsave and spin_lock_irqrestore semantics in
user space.
Signed-off-by: Wink Saville [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Documentation/ace.txt | 100 +
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