[RFC][PATCH 0/5] arch: atomic rework

[Paul E. McKenney]

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:

[ . . . ]

> > 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