On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 03:04:22PM +0530, Raghavendra K T wrote: > So we have 3 choices, > 1. xadd > 2. continue with current approach. > 3. a read before unlock and also after that. For the truly paranoid we have probe_kernel_address(), suppose the lock was in module space and the module just got unloaded under us. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization