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xen-devel
[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 15/35] subarch support for controlling interr
Martin J. Bligh wrote:
+/*
+ * The use of 'barrier' in the following reflects their use as
local-lock
+ * operations. Reentrancy must be prevented (e.g., __cli()) /before/
following
+ * critical operations are executed. All critical operations must
complete
+ * /before/ reentrancy is permitted (e.g., __sti()). Alpha
architecture also
+ * includes these barriers, for example.
+ */
Seems like an odd comment to have in an i386 header file.
Also, it is only talking about compiler barriers, which have nothing
to do with the architecture.
And preempt_* macros should contain the correct compiler barriers, so
several can be removed.
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