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

[Catalin BOIE]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> 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

Thanks!

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