linux-kernel - Re: Documentation for plain accesses and data races

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Date:   Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:22:04 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:     Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
cc:     LKMM Maintainers -- Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jade Alglave <j.alglave@....ac.uk>,
        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation for plain accesses and data races

On Fri, 27 Sep 2019, Andrea Parri wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 02:11:29PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > Folks:
> > 
> > I have spent some time writing up a section for 
> > tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt on plain accesses and 
> > data races.  The initial version is below.
> > 
> > I'm afraid it's rather long and perhaps gets too bogged down in 
> > complexities.  On the other hand, this is a complicated topic so to 
> > some extent this is unavoidable.
> > 
> > In any case, I'd like to hear your comments and reviews.
> 
> Thank you for writing this up, Alan, and sorry for the delayed reply.
> 
> The section looks great to me, and I have no further suggestions besides
> the minor fixes which have been already pointed out in the thread.
> 
> Looking forward to your v2 (an actual patch),

Thanks for the review.  I'll post the patch (together with a couple of 
other changes) in a week or so.

Alan