2018-05-04 21:13:07

by Andrea Parri

Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.

The LKMM project has moved to 'tools/memory-model/'.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst b/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
index 83351c258cdb9..322851bada167 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ in order to help maintainers validate their code against the change in
these memory ordering guarantees.

The terms used through this document try to follow the formal LKMM defined in
-github.com/aparri/memory-model/blob/master/Documentation/explanation.txt
+tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt.

memory-barriers.txt and atomic_t.txt provide more background to the
memory ordering in general and for atomic operations specifically.
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2.7.4

2018-05-04 21:16:14

by Kees Cook

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Andrea Parri
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The LKMM project has moved to 'tools/memory-model/'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <[email protected]>
> ---
> Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst b/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
> index 83351c258cdb9..322851bada167 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ in order to help maintainers validate their code against the change in
> these memory ordering guarantees.
>
> The terms used through this document try to follow the formal LKMM defined in
> -github.com/aparri/memory-model/blob/master/Documentation/explanation.txt
> +tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt.
>
> memory-barriers.txt and atomic_t.txt provide more background to the
> memory ordering in general and for atomic operations specifically.

Will this get linkified by rst ?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security

2018-05-04 21:37:49

by Andrea Parri

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.

On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 02:13:59PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Andrea Parri
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The LKMM project has moved to 'tools/memory-model/'.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst b/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
> > index 83351c258cdb9..322851bada167 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst
> > @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ in order to help maintainers validate their code against the change in
> > these memory ordering guarantees.
> >
> > The terms used through this document try to follow the formal LKMM defined in
> > -github.com/aparri/memory-model/blob/master/Documentation/explanation.txt
> > +tools/memory-model/Documentation/explanation.txt.
> >
> > memory-barriers.txt and atomic_t.txt provide more background to the
> > memory ordering in general and for atomic operations specifically.
>
> Will this get linkified by rst ?

I believe not, but I'm not too familiar with rst... FWIW, I'm seeing that
the above memory-barriers.txt, atomic_t.txt are not linkified.

Andrea


>
> -Kees
>
> --
> Kees Cook
> Pixel Security

2018-05-08 20:54:36

by Jonathan Corbet

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.

On Fri, 4 May 2018 23:11:49 +0200
Andrea Parri <[email protected]> wrote:

> The LKMM project has moved to 'tools/memory-model/'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.

jon