second thoughts on using dl_iterate_phdr() for cache-validation

Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Tue Nov 9 04:40:00 GMT 2004


> >>>>> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 18:32:18 -0800, Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> said:
> 
>   Roland> For platforms where it doesn't work, you can use nonblocking
>   Roland> synchronization a la seqcount.
> 
> Are you referring to the Linux kernel seqlock or something else?

I was referring to the Linux kernel's "seqcount" macros, as an example of
the well-known technique.



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