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documentation: explain memory barriers
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documentation-explain-memory-barriers.patch
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Subject: documentation: explain memory barriers
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
We want all uses of memory barriers to be explained in the source code.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff -puN Documentation/SubmitChecklist~documentation-explain-memory-barriers Documentation/SubmitChecklist
--- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist~documentation-explain-memory-barriers
+++ a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
@@ -85,3 +85,6 @@ kernel patches.
23: Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure
that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various
changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems.
+
+24: All memory barriers {e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()} need a comment in the
+ source code that explains the logic of what they are doing and why.
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