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Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:10:23 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] intelrdt: resctrl: recommend locking for resctrlfs 
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2016, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> There is a locking problem between different applications
> reading/writing to resctrlfs directory at the same time (read the patch
> below for details).
> 
> Suggest a standard locking scheme for applications to use.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
> 
> --- Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt.orig	2016-11-30 13:40:33.080233101 -0200
> +++ Documentation/x86/intel_rdt_ui.txt	2016-11-30 13:45:01.253703259 -0200

I can't remember that we changed the -p1 patch format to -p0 :(