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Friday, March 5th, 2021

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    2:23p
    Security updates for Friday
    Security updates have been issued by Fedora (389-ds-base, dogtag-pki, dpdk, freeipa, isync, openvswitch, pki-core, and screen), Mageia (bind, chromium-browser-stable, gnome-autoar, jasper, openldap, openssl and compat-openssl10, screen, webkit2, and xpdf), Oracle (grub2), Red Hat (java-1.7.1-ibm, java-1.8.0-ibm, nodejs:10, and nodejs:12), SUSE (freeradius-server), and Ubuntu (wpa).
    4:29p
    [$] Lockless patterns: full memory barriers
    The first two articles in this series introduced four ways to order memory
    accesses: load-acquire and store-release operations in the first installment, read and
    write memory barriers in the second. The series continues
    with an exploration of full memory barriers, why they are more expensive,
    and how they are used in the kernel.

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