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Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes
authorPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:59:06 +0000 (13:59 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 16 Dec 2013 10:36:11 +0000 (11:36 +0100)
commit18c03c61444a211237f3d4782353cb38dba795df
tree32f92af0726cfdd576370f2965418f5a859e603b
parentfb2b581968db140586e8d7db38ff278f60872313
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes

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>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
[ Paul modified the original patch from Peter. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt