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| author | Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> | 2018-02-21 00:25:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-02-21 09:58:12 +0100 |
| commit | 48d44d4e8a583c66d9f376e18c1a1fcc445f4b64 (patch) | |
| tree | 36d58233b049b32ef7dbfa7e40a0c5a794be70ee /tools/memory-model/README | |
| parent | Merge tag 'v4.16-rc2' into locking/core, to refresh the branch (diff) | |
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tools/memory-model: Clarify the origin/scope of the tool name
Ingo pointed out that:
"The "memory model" name is overly generic, ambiguous and somewhat
misleading, as we usually mean the virtual memory layout/model
when we say "memory model". GCC too uses it in that sense [...]"
Make it clear that tools/memory-model/ uses the term "memory model" as
shorthand for "memory consistency model" by calling out this convention
in tools/memory-model/README.
Stick to the original "memory model" term in sources' headers and for
the subsystem name.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: nborisov@suse.com
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519169112-20593-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/tools/memory-model/README b/tools/memory-model/README index 43ba49492111..91414a49fac5 100644 --- a/tools/memory-model/README +++ b/tools/memory-model/README @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ - ========================= - LINUX KERNEL MEMORY MODEL - ========================= + ===================================== + LINUX KERNEL MEMORY CONSISTENCY MODEL + ===================================== ============ INTRODUCTION ============ -This directory contains the memory model of the Linux kernel, written -in the "cat" language and executable by the (externally provided) -"herd7" simulator, which exhaustively explores the state space of -small litmus tests. +This directory contains the memory consistency model (memory model, for +short) of the Linux kernel, written in the "cat" language and executable +by the externally provided "herd7" simulator, which exhaustively explores +the state space of small litmus tests. In addition, the "klitmus7" tool (also externally provided) may be used to convert a litmus test to a Linux kernel module, which in turn allows |