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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/4] KVM: introduce "xinterface" API for external interaction with guests
On 10/07/2009 02:48 PM, Gregory Haskins wrote:
>
>> If f() can cause another agent to write to p (by freeing
>> it to a global list, for example), then it is its responsibility to
>> issue the smp_rmb(), otherwise no calculation that took place before f()
>> and accessed p is safe.
>>
>>
> IOW: David is right. You need a cpu-barrier one way or the other. We
> can either allow ->release() to imply one (and probably document it that
> way, like we did for slow-work), or we can be explicit.

No, ->release() must do it or it becomes impossible to program. And in
fact it will, to place the freed structure on a global list it must take
a lock which implies an smp_rmb().

> I chose to be
> explicit since it is kind of self-documenting, and there is no need to
> be worried about performance since the release is slow-path.
>

It's so self-documenting I had no idea what it was there for.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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