Re: [PATCH memory-model] Add recent references

From: Alan Stern
Date: Sun Feb 16 2020 - 12:01:39 EST


On Fri, 14 Feb 2020, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> This commit updates the list of LKMM-related publications in
> Documentation/references.txt.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

> o Paul E. McKenney, Ulrich Weigand, Andrea Parri, and Boqun
> - Feng. 2016. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (6 June 2016).
> - http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2016/p0124r2.html.
> + Feng. 2018. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (27 September 2018).
> + http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0124r6.html.

Even though this is an update, the new version referenced here is
already out-of-date (in particular, with regard to its discussions of
the ordering properties of unlock-lock sequences as viewed by threads
not holding the lock). And it contains a few typos scattered
throughout.

Alan