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McKenney" To: Alan Stern Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, parri.andrea@gmail.com, will.deacon@arm.com, peterz@infradead.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com, npiggin@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com, j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk, luc.maranget@inria.fr, akiyks@gmail.com, willy@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC memory-model 0/6] LKMM updates Reply-To: paulmck@linux.ibm.com References: <20190109210706.GA27268@linux.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 19011019-0068-0000-0000-00000380C73E X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00010380; HX=3.00000242; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000274; SDB=6.01144569; UDB=6.00595964; IPR=6.00924833; MB=3.00025072; MTD=3.00000008; XFM=3.00000015; UTC=2019-01-10 19:03:45 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 19011019-0069-0000-0000-000047155B09 Message-Id: <20190110190341.GV1215@linux.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2019-01-10_07:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=1 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1810050000 definitions=main-1901100147 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 10:47:26AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > 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. > > Does this one still need an ack? If so, you may apply mine. Applied, thank you! Thanx, Paul