On 05/29/2018 10:25 AM, Fenghua Yu wrote: > (By the way, ISE and SDM don't mention other important details, e.g. > the fact that operand is fetched to cache before split lock is > checked. Without the fact, it's hard to explain that only split lock > generates bus lock in chapter 8.1.4 in SDM vol3.)
That's a bummer. You're working with the folks that own those documents to get that fixed up, right? > Maybe I can add "Current TEST_CTL implementation is per-core. The patches > are supposed to work even when TEST_CTL is per-thread (or even per- > socket) in future as well."? Yes, that would be a very important part of the software implementation to mention.

