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Do not do torn writes to active LDTs.
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Authored by kib on Sep 19 2017, 12:33 PM.
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Care must be taken when updating the active LDT, since parallel threads might try to load a segment descriptor which is currently updated. Since the results are undefined, this cannot be ignored by claiming to be an application race.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 19 2017, 4:59 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.