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

[H. Peter Anvin]

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


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