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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
To: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	LKMM Maintainers -- Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>,
	Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
	Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tools: memory-model: Add data-race detection
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 15:28:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190428222801.GL3923@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190426144108.GA6235@andrea>

On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 04:41:08PM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 12:18:09PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > This patch adds data-race detection to the Linux-Kernel Memory Model.
> > As part of this effort, support is added for:
> > 
> > 	compiler barriers (the barrier() function), and
> > 
> > 	a new Preserved Program Order term: (addr ; [Plain] ; wmb)
> > 
> > Data races are marked with a special Flag warning in herd.  It is
> > not guaranteed that the model will provide accurate predictions when a
> > data race is present.
> > 
> > The patch does not include documentation for the data-race detection
> > facility.  The basic design has been explained in various emails, and
> > a separate documentation patch will be submitted later.
> > 
> > This work is based on an earlier formulation of data races for the
> > LKMM by Andrea Parri.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> 
> For the entire series,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>

Applied and pushed, thank you both!

But I forgot to remove my old x86 adaption patch.  Next rebase!  ;-/

							Thanx, Paul


      reply	other threads:[~2019-04-28 22:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-22 16:18 [PATCH 3/3] tools: memory-model: Add data-race detection Alan Stern
2019-04-26 14:41 ` Andrea Parri
2019-04-28 22:28   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]

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