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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:17:10 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
dipankar@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, josh@...htriplett.org,
niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
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darren@...art.com, fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
sbw@....edu, Linux-Arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 3/8]
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes
* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> No SMP architecture currently supporting Linux allows speculative writes,
> so this commit updates Documentation/memory-barriers.txt to prohibit
> them in Linux core code. It also records restrictions on their use.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
The signoff sequence looks weird here. If this came from Peter
originally, did you mean:
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
instead of "From: Paul ..." ?
Thanks,
Ingo
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