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Message-Id: <20180706145532.GG3593@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Fri, 6 Jul 2018 07:55:32 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        akiyks@...il.com, boqun.feng@...il.com, dhowells@...hat.com,
        j.alglave@....ac.uk, luc.maranget@...ia.fr, npiggin@...il.com,
        peterz@...radead.org, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
        will.deacon@....com, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] tools/memory-model: remove ACCESS_ONCE()

On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 07:23:42PM +0200, Andrea Parri wrote:
> > commit 33a58ee5eadadfb1f4850eabd4fac332984881d5
> > Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Date:   Tue Jul 3 08:48:09 2018 -0700
> > 
> >     tools/memory-model: Add informal LKMM documentation to MAINTAINERS
> >     
> >     The Linux-kernel memory model has been informal, with a number of
> >     text files documenting it.  It would be good to make sure that these
> >     informal descriptions are kept up to date and/or pruned appropriately.
> >     This commit therefore brings more of those text files into the LKMM
> >     MAINTAINERS file entry.
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >     Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
> >     Cc: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com>
> >     Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> >     Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> >     Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
> >     Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
> >     Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
> >     Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@....ac.uk>
> >     Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>
> >     Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
> >     Cc: Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>
> >     Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> 
> With the disclaimer that I'm not (yet) familiar with reST,
> 
> Acked-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com>
> 
> Adding the linux-arch ML, as you suggested, would also make sense to me.

Very good, thank you!  I have a --squash commit in -rcu to add your ack
and also linux-arch@...r.kernel.org.

							Thanx, Paul

> Thanks,
>   Andrea
> 
> 
> > 
> > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> > index f2903b818671..2ba947fc9a2f 100644
> > --- a/MAINTAINERS
> > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> > @@ -8321,6 +8321,10 @@ L:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> >  S:	Supported
> >  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git
> >  F:	tools/memory-model/
> > +F:	Documentation/atomic_bitops.txt
> > +F:	Documentation/atomic_t.txt
> > +F:	Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
> > +F:	Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
> >  F:	Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
> >  
> >  LINUX SECURITY MODULE (LSM) FRAMEWORK
> > 
>