Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Nov 2017 05:19:26 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] refcount: provide same memory ordering guarantees as in atomic_t |
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 09:09:57AM +0000, Reshetova, Elena wrote: > <snip> > > > Note that there's work done on better documents and updates to this one. > > One document that might be good to read (I have not in fact had time to > > read it myself yet :-(): > > > > https://github.com/aparri/memory- > > model/blob/master/Documentation/explanation.txt > > I have just finished reading over this and must say that this is excellent. > If I would have started reading on this topic from this doc and then move > to other in-tree docs, including memory-barriers.txt, I would > have had much less issues/questions and it would be much less of a bumpy > read.
Glad you like it! May we have your Acked-by?
> Is there any plan to include it into official kernel doc tree? I really think it > would be very helpful for others also even basically to explain the notations, properties > and language people talk about these issues and give examples.
Yes, we do plan to submit it for inclusion.
Thanx, Paul
> I will try to improve a bit the new doc I have previously sent a patch for in the > spirit of this reading. > > > Best Regards, > Elena. >
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