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

Paul E. McKenney
2019-01-09T21:07:16Z

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.

Thanx, Paul

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Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 6
tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt | 289 ++++++++++++-----------
tools/memory-model/README | 25 +
tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell | 37 ++
tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat | 55 ++--
tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.def | 7
6 files changed, 250 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)