linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Remove misleading examples of the barriers in wake

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Message-ID: <20151007111024.GJ11639@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Wed, 7 Oct 2015 13:10:24 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Remove misleading examples of the
 barriers in wake_*()

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 06:04:50PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> That said, it would be good if Paul (or anyone really) can explain to me
> the reason for: 5af4692a75da ("smp: Make control dependencies work on
> Alpha, improve documentation"). The Changelog simply states that Alpha
> needs the mb, but not how/why etc.

Also, I suppose Documentation/circular-buffer.txt needs help.
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