Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2020 14:09:39 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] locking/qspinlock: Fix inaccessible URL of MCS lock paper |
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 01:58:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 09:25:32PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote: > > It turns out that the URL of the MCS lock paper listed in the source > > code is no longer accessible. I did got question about where the paper > > was. This patch updates the URL to one that is still accessible. > > > > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> > > --- > > kernel/locking/qspinlock.c | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c > > index 2473f10c6956..1d008d2333c0 100644 > > --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c > > +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock.c > > @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ > > * MCS lock. The paper below provides a good description for this kind > > * of lock. > > * > > - * http://www.cise.ufl.edu/tr/DOC/REP-1992-71.pdf > > + * https://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/scott/papers/1991_TOCS_synch.pdf > > Do we want to stick a copy of the paper in our bugzilla and link that > instead? ISTR we do something similar elsewhere, but I'm having trouble > finding it. > > Thomas, Konstantin?
Boris provided an example from commit:
018ebca8bd70 ("x86/cpufeatures: Enable a new AVX512 CPU feature")
That puts a copy of the relevant Intel document here:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204215
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