linux-kernel - [PATCH memory-model 3/3] tools/memory-model: Add KCSAN LF mentorship session citation

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Message-Id: <20240604221419.2370127-3-paulmck@kernel.org>
Date: Tue,  4 Jun 2024 15:14:19 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
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	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
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	Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Subject: [PATCH memory-model 3/3] tools/memory-model: Add KCSAN LF mentorship session citation

Add a citation to Marco's LF mentorship session presentation entitled
"The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer"

[ paulmck: Apply Marco Elver feedback. ]

Reported-by: Marco Elver <elver@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
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: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
---
 tools/memory-model/Documentation/access-marking.txt | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/access-marking.txt b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/access-marking.txt
index 65778222183e3..f531b0837356b 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/access-marking.txt
+++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/access-marking.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ normal accesses to shared memory, that is "normal" as in accesses that do
 not use read-modify-write atomic operations.  It also describes how to
 document these accesses, both with comments and with special assertions
 processed by the Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer (KCSAN).  This discussion
-builds on an earlier LWN article [1].
+builds on an earlier LWN article [1] and Linux Foundation mentorship
+session [2].
 
 
 ACCESS-MARKING OPTIONS
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ example:
 	WRITE_ONCE(a, b + data_race(c + d) + READ_ONCE(e));
 
 Neither plain C-language accesses nor data_race() (#1 and #2 above) place
-any sort of constraint on the compiler's choice of optimizations [2].
+any sort of constraint on the compiler's choice of optimizations [3].
 In contrast, READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() (#3 and #4 above) restrict the
 compiler's use of code-motion and common-subexpression optimizations.
 Therefore, if a given access is involved in an intentional data race,
@@ -594,5 +595,8 @@ REFERENCES
 [1] "Concurrency bugs should fear the big bad data-race detector (part 2)"
     https://lwn.net/Articles/816854/
 
-[2] "Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?"
+[2] "The Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer"
+    https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/the-kernel-concurrency-sanitizer
+
+[3] "Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?"
     https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/
-- 
2.40.1