On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 06:51:06 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 07:10:00PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>> Hello Mauro,
>>
>> (Dropped most CC)
>>
>> On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 10:20:54 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>>> Changeset b00aedf978aa ("doc: Convert to rcu_dereference.txt to rcu_dereference.rst")
>>> renamed: Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt
>>> to: Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst.
>>>
>>> Update its cross-reference accordingly.
>>>
>>> Fixes: b00aedf978aa ("doc: Convert to rcu_dereference.txt to rcu_dereference.rst")
>>> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>
>> Paul has sent a pull request to mingo for v5.13 including v1 of
>> this patch.
>>
>>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab (2):
>>> rcu: Fix kfree_rcu() docbook errors
>>> doc: Update rcu_dereference.rst reference <---
>>
>> See: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210331192934.GA8127@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/
>>
>> Hmm, your email address is on the CC list...
>
> My approach would be simply to take Mauro's patch into the -rcu dev
> branch. If it affected kernel function in a bad way, I would submit it
> into v5.13, but as it is, I would just run it through my normal process.
> This would likely get it into v5.14.
Paul, v1 and v2 has the identical diff. Only difference is the added
Fixes: tag.
I don't think you can do anything further with regard to the v2 patch.
Thanks, Akira
>
> Seem reasonable?
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
>> Thanks, Akira
>>
>>> tools/memory-model/Documentation/glossary.txt | 2 +-
>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/glossary.txt b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/glossary.txt
>>> index b2da6365be63..6f3d16dbf467 100644
>>> --- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/glossary.txt
>>> +++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/glossary.txt
>>> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Address Dependency: When the address of a later memory access is computed
>>> from the value returned by the rcu_dereference() on line 2, the
>>> address dependency extends from that rcu_dereference() to that
>>> "p->a". In rare cases, optimizing compilers can destroy address
>>> - dependencies. Please see Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.txt
>>> + dependencies. Please see Documentation/RCU/rcu_dereference.rst
>>> for more information.
>>>
>>> See also "Control Dependency" and "Data Dependency".
>>>
