On 19/04/16 17:35, Jan Beulich wrote: >>>> Razvan Cojocaru <rcojoc...@bitdefender.com> 04/19/16 1:01 PM >>> >> I think this might be because the LOCK prefix should guarantee that the >> instruction that follows it has exclusive use of shared memory (for both >> reads and writes) but I might be misreading the docs: > > LOCK definitely has no effect on other than the instruction it gets applied > to.
Sorry I wasn't involved in this discussion -- what was the conclusion here? FWIW Andy's suggestion of using a stub seemed like the most robust solution, if that could be made to work. If you're going to submit a patch substantially similar to this one, let me know so I can review the mm bits of the original patch. -George _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel