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<snip>

> Note that there's work done on better documents and updates to this one.
> One document that might be good to read (I have not in fact had time to
> read it myself yet :-():
> 
>   https://github.com/aparri/memory-
> model/blob/master/Documentation/explanation.txt
> 

I have just finished reading over this and must say that this is excellent. 
If I would have started reading on this topic from this doc and then move
to other in-tree docs, including memory-barriers.txt, I would
have had much less issues/questions and it would be much less of a bumpy
read. 

Is there any plan to include it into official kernel doc tree? I really think it
would be very helpful for others also even basically to explain the notations, properties 
and language people talk about these issues and give examples. 

I will try to improve a bit the new doc I have previously sent a patch for in the 
spirit of this reading. 


Best Regards,
Elena.


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