From: Peter Zijlstra Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:59:06 +0000 (-0800) Subject: Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes X-Git-Tag: v3.14-rc1~175^2~18 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=18c03c61444a211237f3d4782353cb38dba795df;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton 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 --- Reading git-diff-tree failed