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Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 4/13] BC: context handling [message #8530 is a reply to message #8529] Thu, 23 November 2006 09:31 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Paul Menage is currently offline  Paul Menage
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On 11/23/06, Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org> wrote:
> You mean moving is like this:
>
> old_bc = task->real_bc;
> task->real_bc = new_bc;
> cmpxchg(&tsk->exec_bc, old_bc, new_bc);
>
> ? Then this won't work:
>
> Initialisation:
> current->exec_bc = init_bc;
> current->real_bc = init_bc;
> ...
> IRQ:
> current->exec_bc = init_bc;
> ...
> old_bc = tsk->real_bc; /* init_bc */
> tsk->real_bc = bc1;
> cx(tsk->exec_bc, init_bc, bc1); /* ok */
> ...
> Here at the middle of an interrupt
> we have bc1 set as exec_bc on task
> which IS wrong!

You could get round that by having a separate "irq_bc" that's never
valid for a task not in an interrupt.

Paul
 
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