Re: [GIT PULL tip/core/rcu] RCU, LKMM, and KCSAN commits for v5.12

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Feb 12 2021 - 07:32:07 EST



* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello, Ingo!
>
> This pull request contains changes for RCU, KCSAN, LKMM, and nolibc.
> You can pull the entire group using branch for-mingo. Or, if you prefer,
> you can pull them separately, using for-mingo-rcu to pull the RCU changes,
> for-mingo-kcsan to pull the KCSAN changes, for-mingo-lkmm to pull the
> LKMM changes, and for-mingo-nolibc to pull the noclib changes.
>
> The changes are as follows:
>
> 1. RCU updates (for-mingo-rcu):

> 4. Fixes to nolibc that allows it to run once again on ARMv8.
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210121072031.23777-1-w@xxxxxx/

Pulled these two into tip:core/rcu - as nolibc's main (only?) usecase
within the kernel is torture-testing.

> 2. Kernel concurrency sanitizer (KCSAN) updates from Marco Elver.
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210106173323.GA23292@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/

> 3. Linux-kernel memory model (LKMM) updates.
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210106173548.GA23664@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/

Pulled these two into tip:locking/core.

Thanks Paul!

Ingo