Re: idt change in a running kernel? what locking?

[Jamie Lokier]

Catalin BOIE wrote:
> What I realy want is to reload idt on every cpu.
> So, probably on_each_cpu is the way to go, right?

Yes.  If you also want to synchronise the changes, so that all CPUs
appear to change idt at the same instant, you'll need some extra
locking.

-- Jamie
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