linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation updates for 3.19

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:58:53 -0400
From:	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>
To:	Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, dvhart@...ux.intel.com,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation updates for 3.19

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> This series contains a few documentation updates:
>
> 1.      Records limitations of bitfields and small variables.
>         Also rules out pre-EV56 Alpha, which lack 8- and 16-bit
>         memory-reference instructions.  Later Alpha CPUs are OK.
>         (The official Alpha maintainers have thus far been silent
>         on this patch.)
>
> 2.      Document the new RCU self-test boot parameters, courtesy of
>         Pranith Kumar.
>
> 3.      Records that short-circuit boolean evaluation does not necessarily
>         defend against control-dependency breakage by compiler optimizations.
>
> 4.      Add mention of atomic_long_t to atomic_ops.txt.
>
> 5.      Fix an example in memory-barriers.txt, courtesy of Pranith Kumar.


Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@...il.com>

>
>                                                         Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>  b/Documentation/atomic_ops.txt        |   12 +++--
>  b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |    9 ++++
>  b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt   |   71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>  3 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>



-- 
Pranith
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/