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author | Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> | 2012-08-30 14:24:42 +0200 |
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committer | Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> | 2012-09-26 15:45:04 +0200 |
commit | c5e3acd666543544d402c83d24d44e487fb51f11 (patch) | |
tree | a73b7dea31241de6e379660bcd6fca6a39b9482b /block | |
parent | fbf3c54239f77a82218002e0c511819e274e7cd4 (diff) | |
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s390/smp: avoid concurrent write to sigp status field
When a sigp instruction is issued it may store a status. This status is
currently stored in a per cpu field of the target cpu.
If multiple cpus issue a sigp instruction with the same target cpu
and a status is stored the result is not necessarily as expected.
Currently this is not an issue:
- on cpu hotplug no sigps, except "restart" and "sense" are sent to the
target cpu.
- on external call we don't look at the status if it is stored
- on sense running the condition code "status stored" is sufficient to
tell if a cpu is running or not
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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