From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752358AbdKTTaX (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:30:23 -0500 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:55530 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751867AbdKTTaW (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Nov 2017 14:30:22 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:30:19 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Andrea Parri Cc: Boqun Feng , Alan Stern , Peter Zijlstra , will.deacon@arm.com, npiggin@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com, j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk, luc.maranget@inria.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, elena.reshetova@intel.com Subject: Re: Prototype patch for Linux-kernel memory model Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20171114075925.apzztfksn4f4y5ue@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20171114171505.GS3624@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20171115163749.GA8555@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20171117112746.GB6719@tardis> <20171120163343.GA5842@andrea> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171120163343.GA5842@andrea> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 17112019-0036-0000-0000-0000028F7C34 X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00008100; HX=3.00000241; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000240; SDB=6.00948738; UDB=6.00479087; IPR=6.00729019; BA=6.00005702; NDR=6.00000001; ZLA=6.00000005; ZF=6.00000009; ZB=6.00000000; ZP=6.00000000; ZH=6.00000000; ZU=6.00000002; MB=3.00018111; XFM=3.00000015; UTC=2017-11-20 19:30:19 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 17112019-0037-0000-0000-00004270B3F3 Message-Id: <20171120193019.GX3624@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2017-11-20_11:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=3 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1011 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1709140000 definitions=main-1711200261 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:35:04PM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 07:27:46PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 08:37:49AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 09:15:05AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:19:21AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: [ . . . ] > > > > I could add a paragraph just before the Signed-off-by/Acked-by/etc. > > > > block describing the roles and contributions, convert the people who > > > > were directly involved to Reviewed-by and everyone else to Acked-by > > > > (unless they explicitly provided a Reviewed-by). > > > > > > > > Would that work, or does someone have a better approach? > > > > > > > How about using the shiny new "Co-Developed-by"? > > > > https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151083859723653&w=2 > > This seems to be exactly what we were looking for/we needed. Altought > still undocumented in "mainline", the tag has already found some uses > in the past, and it appears in its commit log. I've just modified com- > mit-log.txt in the "memory-model" repo. to adopt this tag. > > > > > > Besides, as you know, I've been following and learning a lot from this > > model from maybe very beginning, and I have read throught the documents > > and cat files, and even got a chance to verify some RCU-involved code > > with Andrea using this model ;-) So feel free to add: > > > > Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng > > Added. Thanks, Thank you, Andrea! I redid the ordering, given that Boqun did not review before we developed, and also removed his now-redundant Acked-by. Thanx, Paul