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

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 01:31:09PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * 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.

Thank you, Ingo!  In the future, I will group nolibc with RCU.  But there
has to be something other than RCU that needs it.  I will take a look. ;-)

							Thanx, Paul