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Message-ID: <54ECF296.3030301@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 13:52:22 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com> CC: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, 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 01:48 PM, Ross Zwisler wrote: > On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 13:41 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> 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. > > Either sounds like a good idea to me. :) Let me know which you'd prefer > and I'll get something written up. > Kerneldoc would be better, as it is more likely to be maintained in proximity for the source. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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