Re: [PATCH] powerpc: During context switch, check before setting mm_cpumask

On 04/10/16 10:58, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 10:25 +1100, Balbir Singh wrote:

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I think this makes sense, in fact I think in the longer term we can
even use __set_bit() reorder-able version since we have a sync
coming out of schedule(). The read side for TLB flush can use a RMB

No, that wouldn't be atomic vs. other threads accessing the same
bitmap.

Somethings distorted my thought process. Thanks!

Balbir Singh.