linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/barriers/kokr: Remove references to [smp_]read_barrier

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Message-ID: <20191209170633.GC7489@willie-the-truck>
Date:   Mon, 9 Dec 2019 17:06:34 +0000
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     SeongJae Park <sj38.park@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, notify@...nel.org,
        SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation/barriers/kokr: Remove references to
 [smp_]read_barrier_depends()

On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 09:00:57AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 09:44:33AM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 02:51:56PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 11:38:22PM +0100, SeongJae Park wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 11:08 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org> wrote:
> > > > > But since Jon seems to be taking these in his capacity and Documentation
> > > > > maintainer, could you please resend CCing him?  If we have these changes
> > > > > scattered across too many trees, someone is going to get confused,
> > > > > and it probably will be me.  ;-)
> > > > 
> > > > Agreed, CC-ing Jon to this mail.  That said, this is a followup of Will's
> > > > patch[1] and the patch is also not queued in Jon's tree.  So, I would like to
> > > > hear Will's opinion either, if possible.
> > > > 
> > > > [1]  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191108170120.22331-10-will@kernel.org/
> > > 
> > > Ah, this one got caught out in the conversion from .html to .rst.
> > > 
> > > I did get an ack on one of those, and thus queued it.  I clearly need to
> > > take another look at Will's series, and thank you for the reminder!
> > 
> > I was planning to include this in the next posting of my series, but I was
> > waiting for the merge window to close first. Now that we have -rc1, I'll
> > post it this week, although the patches are also queued up in my tree here
> > [1] (warning -- rebasing development branch).
> > 
> > I'll leave the patches that are unrelated to smp_read_barrier_depends() to
> > Paul and Jon, unless they indicate a preference to the contrary.
> 
> I don't know about Jon, but I might need a reminder as to which patches
> those are.  ;-)

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191121234125.28032-1-sj38.park@gmail.com

...but it actually looks like Jon picked those all up, so I think we're good.

SeongJae -- please shout if we've missed something (the link above, plus
this patch).

Will