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Re:Linux-insides: sequential locks in the Linux kernel by gpderetta on Monday July 11, 2016 @09:21AM (#12070827)
On a related note, take a look a Hans Boehm's paper "Can Seqlocks Get Along With Programming Language Memory Models?" [1].

[1] http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2012/HPL-2012-68.html

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Re:Linux-insides: sequential locks in the Linux kernel by caf on Monday July 11, 2016 @09:52PM (#12076209)
I enjoyed footnote 3:

  ... in spite of my earlier claims in the previously
  mentioned mailing list discussion.
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