On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:58:04 -0400 "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> wrote:
:>In :><offbf2a795.663da601-on85257be2.003f3447-85257be2.003fa...@us.ibm.com>, :>on 09/10/2013 :> at 07:34 AM, Peter Relson <[email protected]> said: :>>True. But it does not need to. Disablement of "your" CPU is the :>>serialization that is required. :>For accessing the PSA of a different CPU? With disablement, you can guarantee that your processor will not be interrupted between fetching the address and accessing it (one would presume screwing with a PSA will require SIGPing the other CPUs). :>>This presumes that you were enabled for both interrupt types before :>>the STNSM. :> :>Indeed. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
