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Date:   Sat, 21 Oct 2023 08:31:01 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To:     Jonas Oberhauser <jonas.oberhauser@huaweicloud.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH memory-model] docs: memory-barriers: Add note on compiler
 transformation and address deps
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On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 03:45:16PM +0200, Jonas Oberhauser wrote:
> 
> Am 10/20/2023 um 7:56 PM schrieb Paul E. McKenney:
> > On Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 06:13:34PM +0200, Jonas Oberhauser wrote:
> > > Am 10/20/2023 um 5:24 PM schrieb Akira Yokosawa:
> > > > Hi Paul,
> > > > 
> > > > On 2023/10/20 22:57, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > > > So if there are things that rcu_dereference.rst is missing, they do
> > > > > need to be added.
> > > > As far as I can see, there is no mention of "address dependency"
> > > > in rcu_dereference.rst.
> > > > Yes, I see the discussion in rcu_dereference.rst is all about how
> > > > not to break address dependency by proper uses of rcu_dereference()
> > > > and its friends.  But that might not be obvious for readers who
> > > > followed the references placed in memory-barriers.txt.
> > > > 
> > > > Using the term "address dependency" somewhere in rcu_dereference.rst
> > > > should help such readers, I guess.
> > > I think that's a good point.
> > How about the commit shown at the end of this email,
> 
> I think it's very clear.

Thank you for looking it over!

> > with a Reported-by for both of you?
> 
> I haven't reported anything.

I doubt that Akira would have said anything had you not initiated this
discussion.  But if you would like, I can remove your Reported-by,
though I would need you to explicitly ask.

> > > > [...]
> > > > > > Thanks for the response, I started thinking my mails aren't getting through
> > > > > > again.
> > > > Jonas, FWIW, your email archived at
> > > > 
> > > >       https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/1c731fdc-9383-21f2-b2d0-2c879b382687@huaweicloud.com/
> > > > 
> > > > didn't reach my gmail inbox.  I looked for it in the spam folder,
> > > > but couldn't find it there either.
> > > > [...]
> > > 
> > > Thanks Akira!
> > > 
> > > I wrote the gmail support a while ago, but no response.
> > > 
> > > Currently no idea who to talk to... Oh well.
> > Your emails used to end up in my spam folder quite frequently, but
> > they have been coming through since you changed your email address.
> 
> In return, I receive all mail from the mailing list, if is also addressed to
> me, twice.
> So it evens out, somehow? (I suspect this is a configuration error in my
> mail filters on my side though)

Too much fun!

							Thanx, Paul