[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v3] x86/VPMU: Clear last_vcpu when destroying VPMU
>>> Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx> 12/17/14 4:10 PM >>> >+ /* Need to clear last_vcpu in case it points to v */ >+ (void)cmpxchg(last, v, NULL); In a (later) reply to v2 I had indicated that it doesn't seem safe to so here but rely on an IPI in the other path altering that value. Can you explain why you think this is safe without changing the others to CPU-atomic accesses too? Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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