Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH] add volatile to pte entry of the p2m table

[Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Alex.

On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:24:13PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:

>    I guess the problem is that I don't quite see how adding these
> volatile declarations actually fix anything.  If we're dealing with
> races because of concurrent accesses to the data, I would expect we need
> to add some locking.  I'd be surprised if declaring a variable as
> volatile would solve the race.  Thanks,

I see. I'll write and post the documentation on SMP.

-- 
yamahata

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