Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:01:40 -0500 | From | Jason Baron <> | Subject | Re: [patch 1/7] Immediate Values - Architecture Independent Code |
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:12:48PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Hrm, does your stop machine implementation disable interrupts while the > CPUs busy loop ? >
yes. this is how stop_machine is implemented...and I believe is consistent with the way in which your algorithm disables irqs. The logic to me, is we don't want any cpus to see the kernel text in an inconsistent state via an irq.
-Jason
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