linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v18 for v4.1-rc2 1/3] sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)

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Message-ID: <CALCETrX4RSAgJ+A-GtQy_zoECSRDqQ456FV8-JmOqRD=eftiNA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 May 2015 19:50:26 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 for v4.1-rc2 1/3] sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory
 barrier (generic, x86)

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers
> <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com> wrote:
>>
>> Will try moving those parts under a "---" in the commit
>> message, and hope it does what I intend.
>
> Yeah, that should do it for anybody who then uses "git am" to apply
> the patches you send out. It's kind of hacky, and I've always worried
> a bit that somebody uses "^---$' for real in a commit message and
> things get lost, but it is *such* a useful way to add notes to emails
> that aren't fit for actually committing, that the risk has never
> outweighed the benefits.

There's also 'git format-patch --notes', which is less hacky but more
complicated.

--Andy

>
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