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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:06:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race with preemptible
kernel and CPU hotplug
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> Changing the 0x90 (single-byte nop) currently used into a 0x3E DS segment
> override prefix should fix this issue. Since the default of the atomic
> instructions is to use the DS segment anyway, it should not affect the
> behavior.
Ok, so I think this is an _excellent_ patch, but I'd like to also then use
LOCK_PREFIX in include/asm-x86/futex.h.
See commit 9d55b9923a1b7ea8193b8875c57ec940dc2ff027.
Linus
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