linux-kernel - Re: Prototype patch for Linux-kernel memory model

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Message-Id: <20171120193019.GX3624@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon, 20 Nov 2017 11:30:19 -0800
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
Cc:     Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, will.deacon@....com,
        npiggin@...il.com, dhowells@...hat.com, j.alglave@....ac.uk,
        luc.maranget@...ia.fr, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        elena.reshetova@...el.com
Subject: Re: Prototype patch for Linux-kernel memory model

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 05:35:04PM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 07:27:46PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 08:37:49AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 09:15:05AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 10:19:21AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:

[ . . . ]

> > > > I could add a paragraph just before the Signed-off-by/Acked-by/etc.
> > > > block describing the roles and contributions, convert the people who
> > > > were directly involved to Reviewed-by and everyone else to Acked-by
> > > > (unless they explicitly provided a Reviewed-by).
> > > > 
> > > > Would that work, or does someone have a better approach?
> > > 
> > 
> > How about using the shiny new "Co-Developed-by"?
> > 
> > 	https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151083859723653&w=2
> 
> This seems to be exactly what we were looking for/we needed. Altought
> still undocumented in "mainline", the tag has already found some uses
> in the past, and it appears in its commit log. I've just modified com-
> mit-log.txt in the "memory-model" repo. to adopt this tag.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Besides, as you know, I've been following and learning a lot from this
> > model from maybe very beginning, and I have read throught the documents
> > and cat files, and even got a chance to verify some RCU-involved code
> > with Andrea using this model ;-) So feel free to add:
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
> 
> Added. Thanks,

Thank you, Andrea!

I redid the ordering, given that Boqun did not review before we developed,
and also removed his now-redundant Acked-by.

							Thanx, Paul