Re: [PATCH v2] tools: memory-model: Make plain accesses carry dependencies

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Sat Dec 03 2022 - 15:44:18 EST


On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 03:34:20PM -0500, stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 11:02:26AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 11:58:36AM +0000, Jonas Oberhauser wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Boqun Feng [mailto:boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Friday, December 2, 2022 7:50 PM
> >
> > > > I wonder is this patch a first step to solve the OOTA problem you reported in OSS:
> > > > https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/osseu2022/e1/oss-eu22-jonas.pdf
> > > > If so maybe it's better to put the link in the commit log I think.
> > >
> > > It's not directly related to that specific problem, it does solve some other OOTA issues though.
> > > If you think we should link to the talk, there's also a video with slightly more updated slides from the actual talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDKhIxKhoQ
> > > do you think I should link to both then?
> >
> > It is not hard for me to add that in if people believe that it should be
> > included. But default is lazy in this case. ;-)
>
> I don't think there's any need to mention that video in the commit log.
> It's an introductory talk, and it's pretty safe to assume that anyone
> reading the commit because they are interested in the LKMM in great
> detail is already beyond the introductory level.
>
> On the other hand, it wouldn't hurt to include a Link: tag to an
> appropriate message in this email thread. (I leave it up to Paul to
> decide which message is most "appropriate" -- there may not be a good
> candidate, because a lot of the messages were not CC'ed to LKML.)

For this approach, I would add this:

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/4262e55407294a5989e766bc4dc48293@xxxxxxxxxx/

I could of course do both the extra paragraph -and- the Link:. ;-)

Thoughts?

Thanx, Paul