Re: [PATCH RFC memory-model 0/6] LKMM updates

Paul E. McKenney
2019-01-10T19:03:49Z

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