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From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tools: memory-model: Make plain accesses carry
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On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 11:58:36AM +0000, Jonas Oberhauser wrote:
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boqun Feng [mailto:boqun.feng@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Friday, December 2, 2022 7:50 PM
> 
> > > Reviewed-by: Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> 
> > s/Reviewed-by: Reviewed-by:/Reviewed-by:^2 to save some space ? ;-)
> 
> 
> Oh, I didn't know I'm allowed to compress things like that! Can I use ? as well to save another character?

Heh!  I might miss that, and who knows?  The bots might think that "?"
was the first letter of your name.  ;-)

> > I wonder is this patch a first step to solve the OOTA problem you reported in OSS:
> >	https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/osseu2022/e1/oss-eu22-jonas.pdf
> > If so maybe it's better to put the link in the commit log I think.
> 
> It's not directly related to that specific problem, it does solve some other OOTA issues though.
> If you think we should link to the talk, there's also a video with slightly more updated slides from the actual talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFDKhIxKhoQ
> do you think I should link to both then?

It is not hard for me to add that in if people believe that it should be
included.  But default is lazy in this case.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul