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Subject: Re: KVM Clock
From: Julian Stecklina <jsteckli@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 01:41:26 +0100
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John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
>There is the __compiler_membar() macro in <sys/cdefs.h> that you could
>use if 
>this code is x86-specific (and thus knows it only needs a compiler
>barrier).

Ah. Thanks. This will do. Something like access_once would be perfect, though.

I'll post an updated patch that does not duplicate code that is in xen/ soonish. Didn't get around to testing it the last days.

Julian
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Out of office. Please excuse my brevity.