Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] doc: Add remote CPU access details and others to this_cpu_ops.txt

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Jul 18 2014 - 10:23:33 EST


On Thu, 17 Jul 2014, Pranith Kumar wrote:

> > then we have on x86 a increment operation with locked semantics racing
> > with an unlocked one on the same cacheline.
> OK, I will add this as a warning in the documentation. Thanks!

Note that I have not been able to get beyond a bad feeling. Looked up
various sources of information about how the lock prefix works. Still I am
not sure if this works or not.


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