linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm: Add support for the pcommit instruction

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Message-ID: <54ECF01B.1070101@zytor.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2015 13:41:47 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
CC:	ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com, hpa@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm: Add support for the pcommit instruction

On 02/24/2015 01:40 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 02/24/2015 01:30 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 03:14:01PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> That may cause the same line to be flushed twice.  I would suggest,
>>> instead, also removing the arithmetic on void *:
>>
>> Btw, should we hold down all those suggested usages somewhere in
>> Documentation/x86/ as commit messages are generally harder to find?
>>
> 
> Yes, and commit messages can't be corrected after the fact.
> 

Either that, or perhaps even better in kerneldoc comments in the source
itself.

	-hpa


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