Re: [PATCH v9 05/12] x86, mpx: on-demand kernel allocation of bounds tables

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On 10/24/2014 08:08 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, Qiaowei Ren wrote:
+	/*
+	 * Go poke the address of the new bounds table in to the
+	 * bounds directory entry out in userspace memory.  Note:
+	 * we may race with another CPU instantiating the same table.
+	 * In that case the cmpxchg will see an unexpected
+	 * 'actual_old_val'.
+	 */
+	ret = user_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(&actual_old_val, bd_entry,
+					   expected_old_val, bt_addr);

This is fully preemptible non-atomic context, right?

So this wants a proper comment, why using
user_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() is the right thing to do here.


Well, we will address it.

Thanks,
Qiaowei





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