From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com,
dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org,
niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com,
darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com,
sbw@mit.edu, Linux-Arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 3/8] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 14:17:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131212131710.GE5806@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1386799151-2219-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* 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 ..." ?
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-12 13:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <1386799151-2219-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-11 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 3/8] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-12 13:17 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-12-12 15:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-13 14:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-16 10:39 ` [tip:core/locking] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-16 10:39 ` tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2013-12-11 21:59 ` [PATCH v6 tip/core/locking 5/8] locking: Add an smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() for UNLOCK+LOCK barrier Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-11 21:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-16 10:40 ` [tip:core/locking] locking: Add an smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() for UNLOCK+BLOCK barrier tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-16 10:40 ` tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2013-12-16 10:39 ` [tip:core/locking] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Add needed ACCESS_ONCE() calls to memory-barriers.txt tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
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