On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 03:40:43PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:18:53AM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote: > > 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.) > > That commit is in -tip: > > 4607abbcf464 ("tools/memory-model: Model smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()") > > So it has already left my -rcu tree. ;-) Oh, you're right: now I see the commit (e.g., with "git show"), but I don't see the corresponding changes applied to the tree. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=locking/core&id=4607abbcf464ea2be14da444215d05c73025cf6e https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/tree/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell?h=locking/core Is this expected? Andrea > > Thanx, Paul >
