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On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
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> Would something like this be acceptable (and is it correct)?

I don't think any of this can be called "correct", in that the
unlocked accesses to the cached state are clearly racy, but I think
it's very much "acceptable".

                   Linus

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On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
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> Would something like this be acceptable (and is it correct)?

I don't think any of this can be called "correct", in that the
unlocked accesses to the cached state are clearly racy, but I think
it's very much "acceptable".

                   Linus

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