LDREX/STREX and pre-emption on SMP hardware

Bill Gatliff bgat at billgatliff.com
Mon Sep 14 08:43:45 EDT 2009


Catalin Marinas wrote:
> And here's an untested patch to clear the exclusive monitor on the
> exception return path. If you are OK with the idea, I'll do some testing
> before pushing it for upstream:
>   

How are you going to "test" for this one? It's such a corner case, it's 
going to be tricky to validate that your changes are actually getting 
test coverage methinks...


b.g.

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