From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932951AbcCPH0g (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2016 03:26:36 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f45.google.com ([74.125.82.45]:35740 "EHLO mail-wm0-f45.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752004AbcCPH0b (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Mar 2016 03:26:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 08:26:25 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: "Paul E. McKenney" 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 Message-ID: <20160316072625.GA10500@gmail.com> References: <20160315154631.GA1712@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160315154631.GA1712@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Paul E. McKenney 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