linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation changes for 4.4

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 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:	Tue, 6 Oct 2015 10:35:05 -0700
From:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, dvhart@...ux.intel.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, bobby.prani@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/5] Documentation changes for 4.4

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 09:33:58AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> This series contains a few documentation updates:
> 
> 1.	Clearly state that RCU readers have no acquire/release semantics.
> 
> 2.	Call out slow consoles as a cause of stall warnings.
> 
> 3.	Update whatisRCU() to show rcu_dereference_protected(),
> 	courtesy of Jason A. Donenfeld.
> 
> 4.	Catch up list of torture_type options.
> 
> 5.	Add lockless_dereference() to memory-barriers.txt.

For all five:

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
--
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/