From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752289AbbJGLKb (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2015 07:10:31 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:54978 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752179AbbJGLK2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2015 07:10:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 13:10:24 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Boqun Feng , "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , Michal Hocko , David Howells , Linus Torvalds , Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Remove misleading examples of the barriers in wake_*() Message-ID: <20151007111024.GJ11639@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1441674841-11498-1-git-send-email-boqun.feng@gmail.com> <20150909192822.GM4029@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20150910021612.GC18494@fixme-laptop.cn.ibm.com> <20150910175557.GA20640@redhat.com> <20150917130125.GL3816@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20150917170111.GA29215@redhat.com> <20150918064956.GQ3816@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20150921174611.GA28059@redhat.com> <20151006160450.GS3604@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151006160450.GS3604@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 06:04:50PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > That said, it would be good if Paul (or anyone really) can explain to me > the reason for: 5af4692a75da ("smp: Make control dependencies work on > Alpha, improve documentation"). The Changelog simply states that Alpha > needs the mb, but not how/why etc. Also, I suppose Documentation/circular-buffer.txt needs help.