Re: Some more feedback on Chapter 9

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 06:59:24AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> On 2016/07/29 2:40, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:06:22PM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> >> Hi Paul,
> >>
> >> There are still several issues regarding Chapter 9 I want to feedback.
> >> I'm afraid most of them are beyond my ability to submit as patches.
> >>
> >> * At the beginning of Section 9.5.2, there is a credit of the form
> >>   "Authors: ...".
> >>   But there is \OriginallyPublished{} command just above the credit.
> >>   I'm wondering if the credit in the text is necessary.
> >>   There is a similar credit at the beginning of Section 14.2, but there is
> >>   no \OriginallyPublished{} command there. This section seems to have been
> >>   written for perfbook. If this is the case, for a consistent look, it would
> >>   be better if the credit is moved to Appendix F.1.
> > 
> > Good point!  I am guessing that these predated \OriginallyPublished{}, and
> > that I didn't get around to fixing them properly.  I have now fixed them.
> 
> And I'm wondering why I didn't realize the origin of Section 14.2 is
> Documentation/memory-barriers.txt...
> But they look fairly different now, don't they?

They do!  The book has not kept up with memory-barriers.txt.

Again, once we formally define the Linux-kernel memory model, I will
rewrite the memory-barriers material, probably folding Section 14.2
and Appendix C together.

							Thanx, Paul