From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sj38.park@gmail.com,
josh@joshtriplett.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, jiangshanlai@gmail.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL v2 rcu/next] memory-barriers.txt commits for 4.6
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 08:26:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160316072625.GA10500@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160315154631.GA1712@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> [...] In fact, in view of the no-diagrams and no-quizzes restrictions, I don't
> see a way to improve on comments in the source code. [...]
So I don't think there's such a hard restriction: AFAICS Linus's main problem was
the dual .html and .htmlx file for what essentially are the same documents.
If you can solve that with a single (.html?) file then I think it's all OK.
> The memory-barriers.txt commits are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git for-mingo
>
> for you to fetch changes up to 65f95ff2e41a32dd190cf28e3abb029625eef968:
>
> documentation: Clarify compiler store-fusion example (2016-03-14 15:52:19 -0700)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Paul E. McKenney (7):
> documentation: Fix control dependency and identical stores
> documentation: Fix memory-barriers.txt section references
> documentation: Remove obsolete reference to RCU-protected indexes
> documentation: Subsequent writes ordered by rcu_dereference()
> documentation: Distinguish between local and global transitivity
> documentation: Add alternative release-acquire outcome
> documentation: Transitivity is not cumulativity
>
> SeongJae Park (1):
> documentation: Clarify compiler store-fusion example
>
> Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 141 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 116 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
Pulled into tip:locking/urgent, thanks a lot Paul!
Ingo
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-15 15:46 [GIT PULL v2 rcu/next] memory-barriers.txt commits for 4.6 Paul E. McKenney
2016-03-16 7:26 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2016-03-16 12:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
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