Re: [patch] generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement

[Suresh Siddha]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 04:12:32AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Suresh Siddha wrote:
> >>     
> >>> We didn't see the lockup in our tests but Xen folks reported similar failures
> >>> with their smp call function code.
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> ...really?  I don't remember anything like that, but perhaps I'm 
> >> forgetting something.  In Xen the IPI is sent with a hypercall, 
> >> which is definitely a solid enough barrier for these purposes.
> >>     
> >
> > i think Suresh might be referring to some of the fragilities Xen had 
> > with generic-ipi. But those AFAICT were due to the on-stack lifetime 
> > bug that Nick fixed via the kmalloc? v2.6.26-ish issue.
> 
> Right, that's all I could think of.

No. I am referring to Xen hypervisor code fix recently done by the Xen
team in the Intel.

http://xenbits.xensource.com/xen-unstable.hg?rev/50170dc8649c

thanks,
suresh
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