Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Prohibit speculative writes
authorPeter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:59:06 +0000 (13:59 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[ Paul modified the original patch from Peter. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt