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Commit 18c03c61 authored by Peter Zijlstra's avatar Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar
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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: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPeter 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: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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