linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND 3/4] Documentation/litmus-tests: Merge atomic's README into top-level one

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Message-ID: <ed5b16b9-b522-8f9b-847b-e18d6387017e@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 16 May 2020 00:01:41 +0900
From:   Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
To:     paulmck@...nel.org
Cc:     Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Vineeth Remanan Pillai <vpillai@...italocean.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jade Alglave <j.alglave@....ac.uk>,
        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>,
        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 3/4] Documentation/litmus-tests: Merge atomic's
 README into top-level one

On Thu, 14 May 2020 15:45:58 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 07:03:33AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 May 2020 10:16:56 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>> On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 08:46:18AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 06:39:03AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
>>>>> From 96fa6680e3b990633ecbb6d11acf03a161b790bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>>>>> From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
>>>>> Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 15:12:57 +0900
>>>>> Subject: [PATCH RESEND 3/4] Documentation/litmus-tests: Merge atomic's README into top-level one
>>>>>
>>>>> Where Documentation/litmus-tests/README lists RCU litmus tests,
>>>>> Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README lists atomic litmus tests.
>>>>> For symmetry, merge the latter into former, with some context
>>>>> adjustment in the introduction.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
>>>>> Acked-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
>>>>> Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
>>>>
>>>> Acked-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Applied, and thank you all!
>>>
>>> I rebased, cancelling the revert with the original, resulting in an
>>> updated lkmm branch on -rcu.  There was one minor conflict, so could
>>> one of you please check to make sure that I resolved things appropriately?
>>
>> One thing I noticed.
>>
>> Commit b2998782ded4 ("Documentation/litmus-tests: Clarify about the RCU
>> pre-initialization test")'s change log says:
>>
>>     Since this test returned to tools/memory-model/, make sure that it is
>>                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>     at least referenced from Documentation/litmus-tests/'s README.
>>
>> Because of the rebase, this needs amendment as well as the title.
>>
>> Something like
>>
>>     Documentation/litumus-tests: Cite a relevant litmus test in tools/memory-model
>>
>>     For ease of finding the RCU related litmus test under
>>     tools/memory-model/, add an entry in README.
>>
>> ?
> 
> Good catch, and yes, I will update that on the next rebase.
> 
> Any other things in need of adjustment?

Aside from the missing Signed-off-by tags Stephen pointed out, I don't
see anything.

        Thanks, Akira

> 
> 							Thanx, Paul