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| author | Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> | 2008-10-16 01:01:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-10-16 14:21:32 -0400 |
| commit | 8033fe65a6d6c0e47ba9e3cb2e4e6902f9dfb8dd (patch) | |
| tree | 5f1531ef9cd4bc0f3056ff904696437652685f07 /Documentation/SubmitChecklist | |
| parent | 7968b3d9a673e922ab980b2616945e63a52d88fe (diff) | |
documentation: explain memory barriers
We want all uses of memory barriers to be explained in the source code.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/SubmitChecklist')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist index 21f0795af20..ac5e0b2f109 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist +++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist | |||
| @@ -85,3 +85,6 @@ kernel patches. | |||
| 85 | 23: Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure | 85 | 23: Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure |
| 86 | that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various | 86 | that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various |
| 87 | changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems. | 87 | changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems. |
| 88 | |||
| 89 | 24: All memory barriers {e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()} need a comment in the | ||
| 90 | source code that explains the logic of what they are doing and why. | ||