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by jgalar
2927 days ago
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Not necessarily. Applications may choose to retry a certain number of times and fallback to another mechanism if the critical section can't complete. A problematic case that was brought up on LKML was the interaction with debuggers and unexpected page faults, see this comment:
https://lwn.net/Articles/738119/ |
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