From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC memory-model 0/6] LKMM updates Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 11:03:41 -0800 Message-ID: <20190110190341.GV1215@linux.ibm.com> References: <20190109210706.GA27268@linux.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Stern Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, parri.andrea@gmail.com, will.deacon@arm.com, peterz@infradead.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com, npiggin@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com, j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk, luc.maranget@inria.fr, akiyks@gmail.com, willy@infradead.org List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:47:26AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, 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@bombadil.infradead.org > > > > 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. > > Does this one still need an ack? If so, you may apply mine. Applied, thank you! Thanx, Paul