Re: Documentation for plain accesses and data races

From: Alan Stern
Date: Fri Sep 27 2019 - 10:22:07 EST


On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, Andrea Parri wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 02:11:29PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Folks:
> >
> > I have spent some time writing up a section for
> > tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt on plain accesses and
> > data races. The initial version is below.
> >
> > I'm afraid it's rather long and perhaps gets too bogged down in
> > complexities. On the other hand, this is a complicated topic so to
> > some extent this is unavoidable.
> >
> > In any case, I'd like to hear your comments and reviews.
>
> Thank you for writing this up, Alan, and sorry for the delayed reply.
>
> The section looks great to me, and I have no further suggestions besides
> the minor fixes which have been already pointed out in the thread.
>
> Looking forward to your v2 (an actual patch),

Thanks for the review. I'll post the patch (together with a couple of
other changes) in a week or so.

Alan