executed on all other CPUs after stop_machine, issues an "iret" core serializing instruction, and therefore handles core serialization for all these CPUs. However, the text modification initiator can continue its execution on the same thread and access the modified text without any scheduler call. Given that the CPU that initiates the code modification is not guaranteed to be the one actually performing the code modification, it falls into the XMC errata. Q: Isn't this executed from an IPI handler, which will return with IRET (a serializing instruction) anyway? A: No, now stop_machine uses per-cpu workqueue, so that handler will be executed from worker threads. There is no iret anymore. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers LKML-Reference: <20110303160137.GB1590@Krystal> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Cc: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin ئd