From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL tools] Linux kernel memory model Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:53:50 -0800 Message-ID: <20180131235350.GH3741@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20180125093440.GA875@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180129065724.ybrdsabvktq7fbqg@gmail.com> <20180129095449.GT3741@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180131090006.onaopgyqthppoysi@gmail.com> <20180131100822.GL2269@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180131100822.GL2269@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, parri.andrea@gmail.com, j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk, luc.maranget@inria.fr, boqun.feng@gmail.com, will.deacon@arm.com, npiggin@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com, elena.reshetova@intel.com, mhocko@suse.com, akiyks@gmail.com, Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:08:22AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:00:06AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > - Similary, some of the high level descriptions in tools/memory-model/README > > should probably propagated into the source code files as well: for example > > both tools/memory-model/lock.cat and linux-kernel.cat could be improved that > > way. > > This is something both Will and me have on our todo list, sadly we've > not had any time to work on this due to this pesky spectre crap. Spectre permitting, this would be very cool! Thanx, Paul From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:58044 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753979AbeAaXxz (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:53:55 -0500 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098394.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w0VNnwDD034803 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:53:55 -0500 Received: from e17.ny.us.ibm.com (e17.ny.us.ibm.com [129.33.205.207]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2fukdejkam-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:53:54 -0500 Received: from localhost by e17.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:53:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:53:50 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL tools] Linux kernel memory model Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20180125093440.GA875@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180129065724.ybrdsabvktq7fbqg@gmail.com> <20180129095449.GT3741@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180131090006.onaopgyqthppoysi@gmail.com> <20180131100822.GL2269@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180131100822.GL2269@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> Message-ID: <20180131235350.GH3741@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, parri.andrea@gmail.com, j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk, luc.maranget@inria.fr, boqun.feng@gmail.com, will.deacon@arm.com, npiggin@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com, elena.reshetova@intel.com, mhocko@suse.com, akiyks@gmail.com, Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds Message-ID: <20180131235350.dXX9KSBOCQt3-zZJoaV6NXBrX7lZ2n3i1pOtLv8CCaM@z> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:08:22AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:00:06AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > - Similary, some of the high level descriptions in tools/memory-model/README > > should probably propagated into the source code files as well: for example > > both tools/memory-model/lock.cat and linux-kernel.cat could be improved that > > way. > > This is something both Will and me have on our todo list, sadly we've > not had any time to work on this due to this pesky spectre crap. Spectre permitting, this would be very cool! Thanx, Paul