From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755023AbeAaXx4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:53:56 -0500 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:43320 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752775AbeAaXxz (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:53:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 15:53:50 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, parri.andrea@gmail.com, j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk, luc.maranget@inria.fr, boqun.feng@gmail.com, will.deacon@arm.com, npiggin@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com, elena.reshetova@intel.com, mhocko@suse.com, akiyks@gmail.com, Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [GIT PULL tools] Linux kernel memory model Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20180125093440.GA875@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180129065724.ybrdsabvktq7fbqg@gmail.com> <20180129095449.GT3741@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20180131090006.onaopgyqthppoysi@gmail.com> <20180131100822.GL2269@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180131100822.GL2269@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 18013123-0040-0000-0000-000003EC082E X-IBM-SpamModules-Scores: X-IBM-SpamModules-Versions: BY=3.00008457; HX=3.00000241; KW=3.00000007; PH=3.00000004; SC=3.00000248; SDB=6.00983219; UDB=6.00498630; IPR=6.00762502; BA=6.00005806; NDR=6.00000001; ZLA=6.00000005; ZF=6.00000009; ZB=6.00000000; ZP=6.00000000; ZH=6.00000000; ZU=6.00000002; MB=3.00019309; XFM=3.00000015; UTC=2018-01-31 23:53:52 X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 18013123-0041-0000-0000-000007E175B3 Message-Id: <20180131235350.GH3741@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2018-01-31_11:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 impostorscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1709140000 definitions=main-1801310293 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:08:22AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:00:06AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > - Similary, some of the high level descriptions in tools/memory-model/README > > should probably propagated into the source code files as well: for example > > both tools/memory-model/lock.cat and linux-kernel.cat could be improved that > > way. > > This is something both Will and me have on our todo list, sadly we've > not had any time to work on this due to this pesky spectre crap. Spectre permitting, this would be very cool! Thanx, Paul