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

From: Ross Zwisler
Date: Tue Feb 24 2015 - 16:48:58 EST


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.

- Ross

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