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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rS323772: Do not do torn writes to active LDTs.

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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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kib created this revision.Sep 19 2017, 12:33 PM

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 19 2017, 4:59 PM

Closed by commit rS323772: Do not do torn writes to active LDTs. (authored by kib). · Explain WhySep 19 2017, 5:57 PM

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