Am 13.10.2011 um 07:40 schrieb Bharat Bhushan r65...@freescale.com:
The current implementation of mtmsr and mtmsrd are racy in that it does:
* check (int_pending == 0)
--- host sets int_pending = 1 ---
* write shared page
* done
while instead we should check for int_pending after
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From: Alexander Graf [mailto:ag...@suse.de]
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPC: Fix race in mtmsr paravirt implementation
: Fix race in mtmsr paravirt implementation
Am 13.10.2011 um 07:40 schrieb Bharat Bhushanr65...@freescale.com:
The current implementation of mtmsr and mtmsrd are racy in that it
does:
* check (int_pending == 0)
--- host sets int_pending = 1---
* write shared page
* done
while instead we