Re: [PATCH] refcount: provide same memory ordering guarantees as in atomic_t

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 09:09:57AM +0000, Reshetova, Elena wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > Note that there's work done on better documents and updates to this one.
> > One document that might be good to read (I have not in fact had time to
> > read it myself yet :-():
> > 
> >   https://github.com/aparri/memory-
> > model/blob/master/Documentation/explanation.txt
> 
> I have just finished reading over this and must say that this is excellent. 
> If I would have started reading on this topic from this doc and then move
> to other in-tree docs, including memory-barriers.txt, I would
> have had much less issues/questions and it would be much less of a bumpy
> read. 

Glad you like it!  May we have your Acked-by?

> Is there any plan to include it into official kernel doc tree? I really think it
> would be very helpful for others also even basically to explain the notations, properties 
> and language people talk about these issues and give examples. 

Yes, we do plan to submit it for inclusion.

							Thanx, Paul

> I will try to improve a bit the new doc I have previously sent a patch for in the 
> spirit of this reading. 
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Elena.
>