From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: Question about sharing spinlock_t among VMs in Xen Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 17:01:06 +0100 Message-ID: <57602A42.7070608@citrix.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta14.messagelabs.com ([193.109.254.103]) by lists.xenproject.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bCqm6-0004Eh-TL for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Tue, 14 Jun 2016 16:01:10 +0000 In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Sender: "Xen-devel" To: Meng Xu Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org T24gMTQvMDYvMTYgMDM6MTMsIE1lbmcgWHUgd3JvdGU6Cj4gT24gTW9uLCBKdW4gMTMsIDIwMTYg YXQgNjo1NCBQTSwgQW5kcmV3IENvb3Blcgo+IDxhbmRyZXcuY29vcGVyM0BjaXRyaXguY29tPiB3 cm90ZToKPj4gT24gMTMvMDYvMjAxNiAxODo0MywgTWVuZyBYdSB3cm90ZToKPj4+IEhpLAo+Pj4K 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