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    sched/core, locking: Document Program-Order guarantees · 8643cda5
    Peter Zijlstra authored
    
    
    These are some notes on the scheduler locking and how it provides
    program order guarantees on SMP systems.
    
    ( This commit is in the locking tree, because the new documentation
      refers to a newly introduced locking primitive. )
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
    Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
    Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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