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From:   Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH memory-model 3/8] tools/memory-model: Document categories
 of ordering primitives
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On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 02:00:12PM -0800, paulmck@kernel.org wrote:
> From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
> 
> The Linux kernel has a number of categories of ordering primitives, which
> are recorded in the LKMM implementation and hinted at by cheatsheet.txt.
> But there is no overview of these categories, and such an overview
> is needed in order to understand multithreaded LKMM litmus tests.
> This commit therefore adds an ordering.txt as well as extracting a
> control-dependencies.txt from memory-barriers.txt.  It also updates the
> README file.
> 
> [ paulmck:  Apply Akira Yokosawa file-placement feedback. ]
> [ paulmck:  Apply Alan Stern feedback. ]
> [ paulmck:  Apply self-review feedback. ]
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> ---
> diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/README b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/README
> index 2d9539f..a50ea81 100644
> --- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/README
> +++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/README

> @@ -41,13 +50,21 @@ README
>  cheatsheet.txt
>  	Quick-reference guide to the Linux-kernel memory model.
>  
> +control-dependencies.txt
> +	Guide to preventing compiler optimizations from destroying
> +	your control dependencies.
> +
>  explanation.txt
> -	Detailed description of the memory model.
> +	Detailed description of the memory model in detail.

A redundantly redundant change.

Alan