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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	jiangshanlai@gmail.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, dvhart@linux.intel.com,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, bobby.prani@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/8] documentation: Record RCU requirements
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:19:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151205201937.GA6063@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151205015431.GH28602@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 05:54:31PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 04:34:43PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > The content of the document seems fine; a few comments below on
> > meta-issues.
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 03:50:19PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,2799 @@
> > > +<!-- DO NOT HAND EDIT. -->
> > > +<!-- Instead, edit Requirements.htmlx and run 'sh htmlqqz.sh Requirements' -->
> > > +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
> > > +        "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
> > 
> > Nit: these days, this should just be:
> > <!doctype html>
> 
> Will making this change mean that https://validator.w3.org/ will
> then require me to make a huge quantity of other changes?

I checked a prominent web site, and they are using the same doctype as
I am, so I am keeping this one.  However...

> > > +        <html>
> > > +        <head><title>A Tour Through RCU's Requirements [LWN.net]</title>
> > > +        <meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
> > 
> > Is there a good reason to not use charset=utf-8 here?
> 
> Beats me.  Cargo-culted that one.  ;-)

... they use utf-8, so I changed mine accordingly.

> > > +
> > > +<h1>A Tour Through RCU's Requirements</h1>
> > > +
> > > +<p>Copyright IBM Corporation, 2015</p>
> > 
> > If you're aiming for a properly formatted copyright notice, the year
> > typically comes first, followed by the copyright holder.  That said,
> > your corporate guidelines presumably have a specific format; is this
> > that format?
> 
> Indeed it is.  Between you and IBM Legal, I unfortunately must follow
> IBM Legal's advice.  ;-)
> 
> > > +<p>Author: Paul E.&nbsp;McKenney</p>
> > > +<p><i>The initial version of this document appeared in the
> > > +<a href="http://lwn.net/">LWN</a> articles
> > > +<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/652156/">here</a>,
> > > +<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/652677/">here</a>, and
> > > +<a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/653326/">here</a>.</i></p>
> > 
> > s/http/https/g
> 
> Will change.

And done, globally, at least for those whose webservers were willing to
put up with the change.  Which was the vast majority.

[ . . . ]

> > > +<p>
> > > +This all should be quite obvious, but the fact remains that
> > > +Linus Torvalds recently had to
> > > +<a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=142905739823385">remind</a>
> > > +me of this requirement.
> > 
> > I'd suggest using the lkml.kernel.org redirector for this link, along
> > with a Message-Id.
> > 
> > > +<p>
> > > +The name notwithstanding, some Linux-kernel architectures
> > > +can have nested NMIs, which RCU must handle correctly.
> > > +Andy Lutomirski
> > > +<a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/21/642">surprised me</a>
> > > +with this requirement;
> > > +he also kindly surprised me with
> > > +<a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/22/1">an algorithm</a>
> > > +that meets this requirement.
> > 
> > These links should both use lkml.kernel.org as well.  Doubly important
> > because lkml.org is often down or has broken messages in its archive.
> 
> Good point, will look into finding the Message-IDs...

This involves a second click for https://lkml.kernel.org/r/<Message-ID>
Trying https://lkml.kernel.org/g/<Message-ID>.  Which works nicely, so sold!

I will let you bug kernel.org about the fact that it translates the URL
to the http: form rather than the https: form...  But if it did that for
the /g/ form, it couldn't find the web page.  Never mind!

So all the ones that work have been converted.

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-05 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-04 23:49 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/8] Documentation updates for 4.5 Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-04 23:50 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/8] documentation: Record RCU requirements Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-05  0:07   ` Josh Triplett
2015-12-05  0:33     ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-05  0:38       ` Josh Triplett
2015-12-05  1:56         ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-05 21:19           ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-05  0:34   ` Josh Triplett
2015-12-05  1:54     ` Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-05 20:19       ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2015-12-04 23:50 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/8] Documentation: Record bottom-bit-zero guarantee for ->next Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-04 23:50 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/8] documentation: Cover requirements controlling stall warnings Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-04 23:50 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/8] documentation: Composability analogies Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-04 23:50 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/8] documentation: Expand on scheduler/RCU deadlock requirements Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-04 23:50 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/8] documentation: Clarify RCU memory barriers and requirements Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-04 23:50 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 7/8] documentation: Update RCU requirements based on expedited changes Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-04 23:50 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 8/8] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Fix ACCESS_ONCE thinko Paul E. McKenney
2015-12-05  0:42 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/8] Documentation updates for 4.5 Josh Triplett

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