Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v5 2/2] x86: add accessors for scratch cpu mask

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 01:42:58PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 28.02.2020 13:07, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > Current usage of the per-CPU scratch cpumask is dangerous since
> > there's no way to figure out if the mask is already being used except
> > for manual code inspection of all the callers and possible call paths.
> > 
> > This is unsafe and not reliable, so introduce a minimal get/put
> > infrastructure to prevent nested usage of the scratch mask and usage
> > in interrupt context.
> > 
> > Move the declaration of scratch_cpumask to smp.c in order to place the
> > declaration and the accessors as close as possible.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>

Ping? This seems to have the required RB, but hasn't been committed.

Thanks, Roger.

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