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Re: [PATCH] x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race with preemptible kernel and CPU hotplug

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From: Linus Torvalds
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race with preemptible kernel and CPU hotplug
Date: Friday, August 15, 2008 - 9:06 am

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

Ok, so I think this is an _excellent_ patch, but I'd like to also then use 
LOCK_PREFIX in include/asm-x86/futex.h.

See commit 9d55b9923a1b7ea8193b8875c57ec940dc2ff027.

		Linus
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[PATCH] x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race with preem ..., Mathieu Desnoyers, (Thu Aug 14, 1:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race with p ..., Andi Kleen, (Thu Aug 14, 2:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race with p ..., H. Peter Anvin, (Thu Aug 14, 2:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH] x86 alternatives : fix LOCK_PREFIX race with p ..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 15, 9:06 am)
[PATCH] x86 : revert replace LOCK_PREFIX in futex.h, Mathieu Desnoyers, (Fri Aug 15, 9:45 am)
[PATCH] x86 : spinlock use LOCK_PREFIX, Mathieu Desnoyers, (Fri Aug 15, 9:56 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86 : spinlock use LOCK_PREFIX, Linus Torvalds, (Fri Aug 15, 10:31 am)
Re: [PATCH] x86 : spinlock use LOCK_PREFIX, H. Peter Anvin, (Fri Aug 15, 1:27 pm)