Re: [PATCH 0/2] jump label: 2.6.38 updates

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Feb 16 2011 - 20:06:10 EST


On 02/16/2011 12:35 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Just curious: how does this work if there's an interrupt (or NMI) right after the
> invalidate instruction but before the 'll' instruction? The IRQ/NMI may refill the
> L1. Or are the two instructions coupled by hw (they form a single instruction in
> essence) and irqs/NMIs are inhibited inbetween?
>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-link/store-conditional

-hpa
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