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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Wink Saville" <wink@saville.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Asynchronous Messaging
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:44:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070122144433.68598359@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d4cf37a60701220019h7cae91f6nc33bd24761a54c67@mail.gmail.com>

> This is accomplished by allocating a page (or more) of memory which
> is executable and mapped into every threads address space. Also, all
> ISR entry points are modified to detect if the code that was interrupted
> was executing within the ACE page. If it was then the ACE code is
> allowed to complete before the ISR continues. This then provides
> the guarantee of atomic execution.

What if you enter the ISR, pass the point of the check and then another
CPU core hits the ACE space ?

Also how do you handle the case where the code gets stuck in your atomic
pages ?

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-22 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-22  8:19 Wink Saville
2007-01-22 14:44 ` Alan [this message]
2007-01-22 15:57   ` Wink Saville

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