Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:23:24 -0500 (CDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] doc: Add remote CPU access details and others to this_cpu_ops.txt |
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2014, Pranith Kumar wrote:
> > then we have on x86 a increment operation with locked semantics racing > > with an unlocked one on the same cacheline. > OK, I will add this as a warning in the documentation. Thanks!
Note that I have not been able to get beyond a bad feeling. Looked up various sources of information about how the lock prefix works. Still I am not sure if this works or not.
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