Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Dec 2013 15:18:19 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 3/8] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes |
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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@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > > > > > 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@infradead.org> > > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > > > > The signoff sequence looks weird here. If this came from Peter > > originally, did you mean: > > > > From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > > > > 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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