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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Dec 12 2013 - 08:17:20 EST



* 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 ..." ?

Thanks,

Ingo
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