2020-02-14 23:32:02

by Paul E. McKenney

Subject: [PATCH memory-model] Add recent references

This commit updates the list of LKMM-related publications in
Documentation/references.txt.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>

diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt
index b177f3e..ecbbaa5 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt
+++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,18 @@ o Christopher Pulte, Shaked Flur, Will Deacon, Jon French,
Linux-kernel memory model
=========================

+o Jade Alglave, Will Deacon, Boqun Feng, David Howells, Daniel
+ Lustig, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, Nicholas
+ Piggin, Alan Stern, Akira Yokosawa, and Peter Zijlstra.
+ 2019. "Calibrating your fear of big bad optimizing compilers"
+ Linux Weekly News. https://lwn.net/Articles/799218/
+
+o Jade Alglave, Will Deacon, Boqun Feng, David Howells, Daniel
+ Lustig, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, Nicholas
+ Piggin, Alan Stern, Akira Yokosawa, and Peter Zijlstra.
+ 2019. "Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?"
+ Linux Weekly News. https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/
+
o Jade Alglave, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, and
Alan Stern. 2018. "Frightening small children and disconcerting
grown-ups: Concurrency in the Linux kernel". In Proceedings of
@@ -88,6 +100,11 @@ o Jade Alglave, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, and
Alan Stern. 2017. "A formal kernel memory-ordering model (part 2)"
Linux Weekly News. https://lwn.net/Articles/720550/

+o Jade Alglave, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, and
+ Alan Stern. 2017-2019. "A Formal Model of Linux-Kernel Memory
+ Ordering" (backup material for the LWN articles)
+ https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/LWNLinuxMM/
+

Memory-model tooling
====================
@@ -110,5 +127,5 @@ Memory-model comparisons
========================

o Paul E. McKenney, Ulrich Weigand, Andrea Parri, and Boqun
- Feng. 2016. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (6 June 2016).
- http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2016/p0124r2.html.
+ Feng. 2018. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (27 September 2018).
+ http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0124r6.html.

2020-02-16 00:58:37

by Andrea Parri

Subject: Re: [PATCH memory-model] Add recent references

On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 03:31:39PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> This commit updates the list of LKMM-related publications in
> Documentation/references.txt.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Andrea Parri <[email protected]>

Thanks,
Andrea


>
> diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt
> index b177f3e..ecbbaa5 100644
> --- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt
> +++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt
> @@ -73,6 +73,18 @@ o Christopher Pulte, Shaked Flur, Will Deacon, Jon French,
> Linux-kernel memory model
> =========================
>
> +o Jade Alglave, Will Deacon, Boqun Feng, David Howells, Daniel
> + Lustig, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, Nicholas
> + Piggin, Alan Stern, Akira Yokosawa, and Peter Zijlstra.
> + 2019. "Calibrating your fear of big bad optimizing compilers"
> + Linux Weekly News. https://lwn.net/Articles/799218/
> +
> +o Jade Alglave, Will Deacon, Boqun Feng, David Howells, Daniel
> + Lustig, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, Nicholas
> + Piggin, Alan Stern, Akira Yokosawa, and Peter Zijlstra.
> + 2019. "Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?"
> + Linux Weekly News. https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/
> +
> o Jade Alglave, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, and
> Alan Stern. 2018. "Frightening small children and disconcerting
> grown-ups: Concurrency in the Linux kernel". In Proceedings of
> @@ -88,6 +100,11 @@ o Jade Alglave, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, and
> Alan Stern. 2017. "A formal kernel memory-ordering model (part 2)"
> Linux Weekly News. https://lwn.net/Articles/720550/
>
> +o Jade Alglave, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, and
> + Alan Stern. 2017-2019. "A Formal Model of Linux-Kernel Memory
> + Ordering" (backup material for the LWN articles)
> + https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/LWNLinuxMM/
> +
>
> Memory-model tooling
> ====================
> @@ -110,5 +127,5 @@ Memory-model comparisons
> ========================
>
> o Paul E. McKenney, Ulrich Weigand, Andrea Parri, and Boqun
> - Feng. 2016. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (6 June 2016).
> - http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2016/p0124r2.html.
> + Feng. 2018. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (27 September 2018).
> + http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0124r6.html.

2020-02-16 17:02:40

by Alan Stern

Subject: Re: [PATCH memory-model] Add recent references

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> This commit updates the list of LKMM-related publications in
> Documentation/references.txt.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>

> o Paul E. McKenney, Ulrich Weigand, Andrea Parri, and Boqun
> - Feng. 2016. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (6 June 2016).
> - http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2016/p0124r2.html.
> + Feng. 2018. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (27 September 2018).
> + http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0124r6.html.

Even though this is an update, the new version referenced here is
already out-of-date (in particular, with regard to its discussions of
the ordering properties of unlock-lock sequences as viewed by threads
not holding the lock). And it contains a few typos scattered
throughout.

Alan

2020-02-17 02:20:36

by Paul E. McKenney

Subject: Re: [PATCH memory-model] Add recent references

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 01:58:01AM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 03:31:39PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > This commit updates the list of LKMM-related publications in
> > Documentation/references.txt.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
>
> Acked-by: Andrea Parri <[email protected]>

Applied and queued for v5.7, thank you!

Thanx, Paul

> Thanks,
> Andrea
>
>
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt
> > index b177f3e..ecbbaa5 100644
> > --- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt
> > +++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/references.txt
> > @@ -73,6 +73,18 @@ o Christopher Pulte, Shaked Flur, Will Deacon, Jon French,
> > Linux-kernel memory model
> > =========================
> >
> > +o Jade Alglave, Will Deacon, Boqun Feng, David Howells, Daniel
> > + Lustig, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, Nicholas
> > + Piggin, Alan Stern, Akira Yokosawa, and Peter Zijlstra.
> > + 2019. "Calibrating your fear of big bad optimizing compilers"
> > + Linux Weekly News. https://lwn.net/Articles/799218/
> > +
> > +o Jade Alglave, Will Deacon, Boqun Feng, David Howells, Daniel
> > + Lustig, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, Nicholas
> > + Piggin, Alan Stern, Akira Yokosawa, and Peter Zijlstra.
> > + 2019. "Who's afraid of a big bad optimizing compiler?"
> > + Linux Weekly News. https://lwn.net/Articles/793253/
> > +
> > o Jade Alglave, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, and
> > Alan Stern. 2018. "Frightening small children and disconcerting
> > grown-ups: Concurrency in the Linux kernel". In Proceedings of
> > @@ -88,6 +100,11 @@ o Jade Alglave, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, and
> > Alan Stern. 2017. "A formal kernel memory-ordering model (part 2)"
> > Linux Weekly News. https://lwn.net/Articles/720550/
> >
> > +o Jade Alglave, Luc Maranget, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri, and
> > + Alan Stern. 2017-2019. "A Formal Model of Linux-Kernel Memory
> > + Ordering" (backup material for the LWN articles)
> > + https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paulmck/LWNLinuxMM/
> > +
> >
> > Memory-model tooling
> > ====================
> > @@ -110,5 +127,5 @@ Memory-model comparisons
> > ========================
> >
> > o Paul E. McKenney, Ulrich Weigand, Andrea Parri, and Boqun
> > - Feng. 2016. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (6 June 2016).
> > - http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2016/p0124r2.html.
> > + Feng. 2018. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (27 September 2018).
> > + http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0124r6.html.

2020-02-17 19:21:07

by Paul E. McKenney

Subject: Re: [PATCH memory-model] Add recent references

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 12:01:14PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2020, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > This commit updates the list of LKMM-related publications in
> > Documentation/references.txt.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
>
> > o Paul E. McKenney, Ulrich Weigand, Andrea Parri, and Boqun
> > - Feng. 2016. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (6 June 2016).
> > - http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/papers/2016/p0124r2.html.
> > + Feng. 2018. "Linux-Kernel Memory Model". (27 September 2018).
> > + http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p0124r6.html.
>
> Even though this is an update, the new version referenced here is
> already out-of-date (in particular, with regard to its discussions of
> the ordering properties of unlock-lock sequences as viewed by threads
> not holding the lock). And it contains a few typos scattered
> throughout.

Indeed, 18 months is a long time for LKMM, isn't it? ;-)

Sounds like time to update it for the next meeting. I of course would
welcome any notes you might have taken while going through it.

Thanx, Paul