Re: [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 3/8]Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Dec 13 2013 - 09:19:00 EST


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 07:08:44AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:17:10PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The signoff sequence looks weird here. If this came from Peter
> > originally, did you mean:
> >
> > From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > instead of "From: Paul ..." ?
>
> Indeed I did! I will fix.

Well Paul did rewrite the entire thing into something far better than
what I started out with. I don't mind him dropping my SOB over his own.
I'll settle for an reviewed-by on this ;-)
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