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[Xen-devel] [PATCH] i386 linux: make 32-bit PAE kernel work when built w

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Subject: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] i386 linux: make 32-bit PAE kernel work when built with newer gcc
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 17:40:12 +0100
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The compiler isn't required to order the two stores ptep_get_and_clear_full() 
in any particular way, and we saw cases
where the upper 32 bits get stored before the lower ones, which causes the 
access to fail (page-fault propagated out of
Xen).

Jan

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