Re: Building of extended nbd fails on ppc
On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 10:39:11AM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> The SMP_ISYNC is just a plain isync on SMP systems. On non-SMP systems it
> should be safe to use these functions. On SMP systems, the isync might
> prevent this (privileged instruction, perhaps -- BenH??).
> Maybe only the SMP_ISYNC def should be protected by #ifdef __KERNEL__?
According to the official documentation from IBM, the isync instruction
does not require supervisor level. This sequence of instructions should
work fine in a user space program as far as I can tell.
Brad Boyer
flar@allandria.com
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