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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:38:20 +0900 From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] i386: per-cpu mmconfig map Hi, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> writes: >> [ Alternatively, we could make a per-cpu mapping area or something. Not >> that it's probably worth it, but if we wanted to avoid all locking and >> instead just disable preemption, that would be the way to go. --Linus ] >> >> This patch is a draft of Linus's suggestion. This seems work for me. >> And this removes pci_config_lock in mmconfig access path, I think we >> don't need lock on this path, although we need to disable IRQ. >> >> Comment? > > I like the idea and the implementation, I have just one concern: > Does your schema still work if the Non-Maskable-Interrupt code uses > config space? It may do that I suspect to deal with ECC memory errors ;( I didn't notice the problem of NMI at all. However if NMI path use it, pci_config_lock would be deadlock already. So I think NMI can't access to PCI config... Hm... -- OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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