Re: Preventing IPI sending races in arch code

[Vineet Gupta]

On 11/26/2013 10:41 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> Right, but the issue per-se is not clobbering of msg holder, but from POV of
>> > receiver, seeming coalescing of 2 set_bit writes to msg holder.
> That's fine. There's no expectation that N ipi_send_msg turn into N
> messages received... it turns into at least one.

OK, I was not aware of that relaxation in semantics.

Thx,
-Vineet
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