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

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Dec 12 2013 - 10:08:58 EST


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 02:17:10PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * 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 ..." ?

Indeed I did! I will fix.

Thanx, Paul

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