Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Andrea Parri <> | | Subject | [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: cross-reference "tools/memory-model/" | | Date | Fri, 2 Feb 2018 10:12:48 +0100 |
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Recent efforts led to the specification of a memory consistency model for the Linux kernel [1], which "can (roughly speaking) be thought of as an automated version of memory-barriers.txt" and which is (in turn) "accompanied by extensive documentation on its use and its design".
Make sure that the (occasional) reader of memory-barriers.txt will be aware of these developments.
[1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=151687290114799&w=2
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> --- Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index a863009849a3b..8cc3f098f4a7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -17,7 +17,9 @@ meant as a guide to using the various memory barriers provided by Linux, but in case of any doubt (and there are many) please ask. To repeat, this document is not a specification of what Linux expects from -hardware. +hardware. For such a specification, in the form of a memory consistency +model, and for documentation about its usage and its design, the reader is +referred to "tools/memory-model/". The purpose of this document is twofold: -- 2.7.4
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