Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:40:34 -0800 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] arch: atomic rework |
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:44:48AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> wrote:
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> > The standard is clear on what's required. I strongly suggest reading > > the formalization of the memory model by Batty et al. > > Can you point to it? Because I can find a draft standard, and it sure > as hell does *not* contain any clarity of the model. It has a *lot* of > verbiage, but it's pretty much impossible to actually understand, even > for somebody who really understands memory ordering.
I suspect he is thinking of the following:
"Mathematizing C++ Concurrency." Mark Batty, Scott Owens, Susmit Sarkar, Peter Sewell, and Tjark Weber. https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cpp/popl085ap-sewell.pdf
Even if you don't like the math, it contains some very good examples.
Thanx, Paul
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