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From: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
To: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Concurrency with tools/memory-model/
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 15:34:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180922133427.GA3998@andrea> (raw)

Hi all,

Paul E. McKenney and myself would like to propose the following topic
for the technical track.

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Concurrency is "tricky", it has been said, due to numerous optimizations
implemented in today's multiprocessors and by the compiler.

Traditionally, developers have relied on informal documentation such as
memory-barriers.txt to avoid the "pitfalls of concurrency".

However, this doesn't always happen right: this documentation is subject
of misinterpretations, incomplete, and yet all but concise!

This talk will go over a new approach to study concurrency issues in the
kernel using the Linux-kernel memory consistency model [1].

What can this model do? and, most importantly, how can it be used?  This
hands-on talk aims at addressing these questions.

[1] 1c27b644c0fdbc ("Automate memory-barriers.txt; provide Linux-kernel memory model")

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Thanks,
  Andrea

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