Re: [PATCH 0/2] tools/memory-model: remove ACCESS_ONCE()

From: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akiyks@gmail.com,
	boqun.feng@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com, j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk,
	luc.maranget@inria.fr, npiggin@gmail.com, peterz@infradead.org,
	stern@rowland.harvard.edu, will.deacon@arm.com,
	davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] tools/memory-model: remove ACCESS_ONCE()
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 19:23:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180703172342.GA3601@andrea> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180703155303.GA3593@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

> commit 33a58ee5eadadfb1f4850eabd4fac332984881d5
> Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date:   Tue Jul 3 08:48:09 2018 -0700
> 
>     tools/memory-model: Add informal LKMM documentation to MAINTAINERS
>     
>     The Linux-kernel memory model has been informal, with a number of
>     text files documenting it.  It would be good to make sure that these
>     informal descriptions are kept up to date and/or pruned appropriately.
>     This commit therefore brings more of those text files into the LKMM
>     MAINTAINERS file entry.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>     Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
>     Cc: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
>     Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
>     Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>     Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
>     Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
>     Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
>     Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>
>     Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
>     Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
>     Cc: Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>
>     Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

With the disclaimer that I'm not (yet) familiar with reST,

Acked-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>

Adding the linux-arch ML, as you suggested, would also make sense to me.

Thanks,
  Andrea

> 
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index f2903b818671..2ba947fc9a2f 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -8321,6 +8321,10 @@ L:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
>  S:	Supported
>  T:	git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git
>  F:	tools/memory-model/
> +F:	Documentation/atomic_bitops.txt
> +F:	Documentation/atomic_t.txt
> +F:	Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst
> +F:	Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
>  F:	Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
>  
>  LINUX SECURITY MODULE (LSM) FRAMEWORK
> 