Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] locking/qspinlock: Fix inaccessible URL of MCS lock paper | From | Waiman Long <> | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2020 09:14:20 -0500 |
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On 1/7/20 8:09 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 01:58:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 09:25:32PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote: >>> It turns out that the URL of the MCS lock paper listed in the source >>> code is no longer accessible. I did got question about where the paper >>> was. This patch updates the URL to one that is still accessible. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> >>> --- >>> kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 2 +- >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c >>> index 2473f10c6956..1d008d2333c0 100644 >>> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c >>> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c >>> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ >>> * MCS lock. The paper below provides a good description for this kind >>> * of lock. >>> * >>> - * http://www.cise.ufl.edu/tr/DOC/REP-1992-71.pdf >>> + * https://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/papers/1991_TOCS_synch.pdf >> Do we want to stick a copy of the paper in our bugzilla and link that >> instead? ISTR we do something similar elsewhere, but I'm having trouble >> finding it. >> >> Thomas, Konstantin? > Boris provided an example from commit: > > 018ebca8bd70 ("x86/cpufeatures: Enable a new AVX512 CPU feature") > > That puts a copy of the relevant Intel document here: > > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204215 > OK, that sounds good. I will put a copy of the paper in the BZ and linked it there.
Thanks, Longman
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