On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 01:07:06PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Hello! > > This series contains updates for the Linux-kernel memory model: > > 1-3. Add SRCU support, courtesy of Alan Stern. > > 4. Update README for adding of SRCU support. > > 5. Update memory-barriers.txt on enforcing heavy ordering for > port-I/O accesses, courtesy of Will Deacon. This one needs > an ack, preferably by someone from Intel. Matthew Wilcox > posted some feedback from an Intel manual here, which might > be considered to be a close substitute, but... ;-) > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127192234.GF10377@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > 6. Update Documentation/explanation.txt to include SRCU support, > courtesy of Alan Stern. > > 7. Dynamically check SRCU lock-to-unlock matching, courtesy of > Luc Maranget. This needs an ack. It seems that 1b52d0186177 ("tools/memory-model: Model smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()") from linux-rcu/dev got lost; this also needs an ack (probably yours! ;D, considered that, IIRC, you introduced the primitive and RCU is currently its only user.) Andrea > > Thanx, Paul > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 6 > tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt | 289 ++++++++++++----------- > tools/memory-model/README | 25 + > tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell | 37 ++ > tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat | 55 ++-- > tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.def | 7 > 6 files changed, 250 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-) >
