Re: [PATCH memory-model] Add recent references

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:01:14PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2020, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > This commit updates the list of LKMM-related publications in
> > Documentation/references.txt.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> 
> >  o	Paul E. McKenney, Ulrich Weigand, Andrea Parri, and Boqun
> > -	Feng. 2016. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (6 June 2016).
> > -	http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2016/p0124r2.html.
> > +	Feng. 2018. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (27 September 2018).
> > +	http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0124r6.html.
> 
> Even though this is an update, the new version referenced here is
> already out-of-date (in particular, with regard to its discussions of 
> the ordering properties of unlock-lock sequences as viewed by threads 
> not holding the lock).  And it contains a few typos scattered 
> throughout.

Indeed, 18 months is a long time for LKMM, isn't it?  ;-)

Sounds like time to update it for the next meeting.  I of course would
welcome any notes you might have taken while going through it.

							Thanx, Paul