From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] locking/qspinlock: Fix inaccessible URL of MCS lock paper
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 17:34:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200107173443.GB32009@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200107151619.20802-1-longman@redhat.com>
On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 10:16:19AM -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 BZ 206115 which contains a copy of
> the paper from
>
> https://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/papers/1991_TOCS_synch.pdf
>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
> ---
> kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> index 2473f10c6956..ce75b2270b58 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
> @@ -31,10 +31,9 @@
> /*
> * The basic principle of a queue-based spinlock can best be understood
> * by studying a classic queue-based spinlock implementation called the
> - * MCS lock. The paper below provides a good description for this kind
> - * of lock.
> + * MCS lock. A copy of the original MCS lock papaer is available at
s/papaer/paper/
I think I reviewed the previous patch as you sent this version, but please
could you reword as suggested here [1]?
Cheers,
Will
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200107172343.GA32009@willie-the-truck/T/#m0f9eaf53e509b87d0f6378e35514c9b120d8edc2
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2020-01-07 15:16 [PATCH v2] locking/qspinlock: Fix inaccessible URL of MCS lock paper Waiman Long
2020-01-07 17:34 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2020-01-07 17:36 ` Waiman Long
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