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A follow-up patch will require certain write to happen before an event channel is unmasked. While the memory barrier is not strictly necessary for all the callers, the main one will need it. In order to avoid an extra memory barrier when using fifo event channels, mandate evtchn_unmask() to provide write ordering. The 2-level event handling unmask operation is missing an appropriate barrier, so add it. Fifo event channels are fine in this regard due to using sync_cmpxchg(). This is part of XSA-332. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Julien Grall <jgrall@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Linux kernel
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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.