Re: [PATCH RFC memory-model 0/6] LKMM updates

From: Alan Stern
Date: Thu Jan 10 2019 - 10:47:29 EST


On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> Hello!
>
> This series contains updates for the Linux-kernel memory model:
>
> 1-3. Add SRCU support, courtesy of Alan Stern.
>
> 4. Update README for adding of SRCU support.
>
> 5. Update memory-barriers.txt on enforcing heavy ordering for
> port-I/O accesses, courtesy of Will Deacon. This one needs
> an ack, preferably by someone from Intel. Matthew Wilcox
> posted some feedback from an Intel manual here, which might
> be considered to be a close substitute, but... ;-)
>
> http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127192234.GF10377@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> 6. Update Documentation/explanation.txt to include SRCU support,
> courtesy of Alan Stern.
>
> 7. Dynamically check SRCU lock-to-unlock matching, courtesy of
> Luc Maranget. This needs an ack.

Does this one still need an ack? If so, you may apply mine.

Alan