Re: [PATCH RFC memory-model 0/6] LKMM updates

[Andrea Parri]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 01:07:06PM -0800, 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 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.

It seems that

  1b52d0186177 ("tools/memory-model: Model smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()")
  
from linux-rcu/dev got lost; this also needs an ack (probably yours! ;D,
considered that, IIRC, you introduced the primitive and RCU is currently
its only user.)

  Andrea


> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  Documentation/memory-barriers.txt                |    6 
>  tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt |  289 ++++++++++++-----------
>  tools/memory-model/README                        |   25 +
>  tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell             |   37 ++
>  tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat              |   55 ++--
>  tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.def              |    7 
>  6 files changed, 250 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)
>