Re: [PATCH v14 for 4.1] sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (x86)

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Apr 13 2015 - 18:45:11 EST


On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2015, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>
> > [ Andrew, can you take this for the 4.1 merge window ? ]
>
> You probably mean 4.2, right?
>
> This fails the basic test for exposure in linux-next, adds syscalls
> without the explicit ack of any x86 maintainer and exposes a user
> space ABI with a magic undocumented flags argument.

Just for completeness sake. It also lacks a man page and the review of
the manpage maintainer.

Thanks,

tglx
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