> >+/* Defines an outstanding patching action. */
> >+struct xsplice_work
> >+{
> >+ atomic_t semaphore; /* Used for rendezvous. */
> >+ atomic_t irq_semaphore; /* Used to signal all IRQs disabled. */
>
> Why do you, btw, need two of them? I would seem to me that having just one
> for both purposes should be fine.
The 'semaphore' is used to get all of the CPUs synced up in the code. Once
they have been synced up (so semaphore == total_cpus-1) we go to the next stage
where all of them disable their IRQs -- and the master patches. Once the
patching
is done all of them renable their IRQs.
I am not exactly sure how I would reuse the 'semaphore' on the second part of
this
(disable IRQs).
Let me ponder this over the weekend with some crayons and paper..
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