On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 11:47 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > I did that at first. It breaks. During the patching we may take > interrupts (pahe faults for example) that contain just patched > instructions. And really, hell breaks loose if we don't flush it > immediately :). I was hoping at first a 32 bit replace would be > atomic > in cache, but the cpu tried to execute invalid instructions, so it > must have gotten some intermediate state.
A 32-bit aligned store -is- atomic. The other threads/cpu will see either the old or the new instruction, nothing in between. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
