From: Daniel McNeil <daniel@osdl.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
dmccr@us.ibm.com, mika.penttila@kolumbus.fi, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Race between vmtruncate and mapped areas?
Date: 16 May 2003 17:27:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1053131245.2690.78.camel@ibm-c.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030515231714.GL1429@dualathlon.random>
On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 16:17, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> no, the spin_lock only acts as a barrier in one way, not both ways, so
> an smp_something is still needed.
>
Can you explain this more? On a x86, isn't a spin_lock a lock; dec
instruction and the rmb() a lock; addl. I thought x86 instructions
with lock prefix provided a memory barrier.
Just curious,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-17 0:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-13 20:44 Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 20:58 ` Mika Penttilä
2003-05-13 21:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 22:26 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 22:49 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 23:00 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 23:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 23:16 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 23:20 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 23:28 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-13 23:29 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-13 23:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-14 1:10 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 15:02 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 1:10 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 15:02 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 15:06 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-14 15:25 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 16:42 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-05-14 17:34 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 17:42 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 17:57 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 18:05 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 18:17 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 18:24 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 18:53 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 8:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-14 19:02 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-14 19:04 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-14 19:07 ` Dave McCracken
2003-05-14 19:11 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-15 0:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 2:36 ` Rik van Riel
2003-05-15 9:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 9:55 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 8:32 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 8:42 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 8:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 9:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 9:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 9:58 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-15 16:38 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-05-15 19:19 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-15 22:04 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-05-15 23:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-17 0:27 ` Daniel McNeil [this message]
2003-05-17 17:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-13 21:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-17 18:19 Paul McKenney
2003-05-17 18:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-05-19 18:11 Paul McKenney
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