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Globally setting a bit in control registers is done with smp_ctl_set_clear_bit(). This is using on_each_cpu() to execute a function which actually sets the control register bit on each online CPU. This can be problematic since on_each_cpu() does not prevent that new CPUs come online while it is executed, which in turn means that control register updates could be missing on new CPUs. In order to prevent this problem make sure that global control register contents cannot change until new CPUs have initialized their control registers, and marked themselves online, so they are included in subsequent on_each_cpu() calls. Reviewed-by: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.