On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 09:31:36AM -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

 > A more interesting question is when a mutex is used only to serialize
 > updates to locations (such as a PTE) which are read without holding a
 > lock..  if we can't allow this for this in a simple way, we're going
 > to have to be a lot more paranoid about what we allow in MI code.

I don't think this is really much of a worry -- in cases like these,
the update will cause a barrier...

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>