Re: [rfc] "fair" rw spinlocks

[Andi Kleen]

ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>> Is it required that all of the processes see the signal before the
>> corresponding interrupt handler returns?  (My guess is "no", which
>> enables a trick or two, but thought I should ask.)
>
> Not that I recall.  I think it is just an I/O completed signal.

Wasn't there the sysrq SAK too? That one definitely would need
to be careful about synchronicity.

-Andi

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