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SubjectRe: [patch] generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placement

* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> ok - so that makes it a v2.6.28 item i guess.
>>
>
> The case Suresh is talking about was a fix to Xen itself, rather
> than on the kernel side, so it doesn't need to be a .28 issue on
> Xen's account.

ok - but still the portion of the fix that strengthens barriers looks
obvious to have and there's little downside that i can see.

Suresh, you might want to split the patch(es) in two: get the barrier
strengthening changes into v2.6.28 (to fix the x2apic bug), while the
aspects that _weaken_ barriers can wait for v2.6.29.

With that it would be a 100% safe change for v2.6.28-rc4.

Ingo


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