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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-23 14:08:53 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-10-23 14:08:53 +0200
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parentMerge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kerne... (diff)
parentlocking/lockdep: Make global debug_locks* variables read-mostly (diff)
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Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking and misc x86 updates from Ingo Molnar: "Lots of changes in this cycle - in part because locking/core attracted a number of related x86 low level work which was easier to handle in a single tree: - Linux Kernel Memory Consistency Model updates (Alan Stern, Paul E. McKenney, Andrea Parri) - lockdep scalability improvements and micro-optimizations (Waiman Long) - rwsem improvements (Waiman Long) - spinlock micro-optimization (Matthew Wilcox) - qspinlocks: Provide a liveness guarantee (more fairness) on x86. (Peter Zijlstra) - Add support for relative references in jump tables on arm64, x86 and s390 to optimize jump labels (Ard Biesheuvel, Heiko Carstens) - Be a lot less permissive on weird (kernel address) uaccess faults on x86: BUG() when uaccess helpers fault on kernel addresses (Jann Horn) - macrofy x86 asm statements to un-confuse the GCC inliner. (Nadav Amit) - ... and a handful of other smaller changes as well" * 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits) locking/lockdep: Make global debug_locks* variables read-mostly locking/lockdep: Fix debug_locks off performance problem locking/pvqspinlock: Extend node size when pvqspinlock is configured locking/qspinlock_stat: Count instances of nested lock slowpaths locking/qspinlock, x86: Provide liveness guarantee x86/asm: 'Simplify' GEN_*_RMWcc() macros locking/qspinlock: Rework some comments locking/qspinlock: Re-order code locking/lockdep: Remove duplicated 'lock_class_ops' percpu array x86/defconfig: Enable CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y futex: Replace spin_is_locked() with lockdep locking/lockdep: Make class->ops a percpu counter and move it under CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP=y x86/jump-labels: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs x86/cpufeature: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs x86/extable: Macrofy inline assembly code to work around GCC inlining bugs x86/paravirt: Work around GCC inlining bugs when compiling paravirt ops x86/bug: Macrofy the BUG table section handling, to work around GCC inlining bugs x86/alternatives: Macrofy lock prefixes to work around GCC inlining bugs x86/refcount: Work around GCC inlining bug x86/objtool: Use asm macros to work around GCC inlining bugs ...
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-rw-r--r--tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus7
-rw-r--r--tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README104
2 files changed, 105 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus b/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus
index 0f749e419b34..094d58df7789 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus
+++ b/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
C ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce
(*
- * Result: Sometimes
+ * Result: Never
*
- * This test shows that the ordering provided by a lock-protected S
- * litmus test (P0() and P1()) are not visible to external process P2().
- * This is likely to change soon.
+ * This test shows that write-write ordering provided by locks
+ * (in P0() and P1()) is visible to external process P2().
*)
{}
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README b/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README
index 4581ec2d3c57..5ee08f129094 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README
+++ b/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-This directory contains the following litmus tests:
+============
+LITMUS TESTS
+============
CoRR+poonceonce+Once.litmus
Test of read-read coherence, that is, whether or not two
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ IRIW+poonceonces+OnceOnce.litmus
ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus
Tests whether the ordering provided by a lock-protected S
litmus test is visible to an external process whose accesses are
- separated by smp_mb(). This addition of an external process to
+ separated by smp_mb(). This addition of an external process to
S is otherwise known as ISA2.
ISA2+poonceonces.litmus
@@ -151,3 +153,101 @@ Z6.0+pooncerelease+poacquirerelease+fencembonceonce.litmus
A great many more litmus tests are available here:
https://github.com/paulmckrcu/litmus
+
+==================
+LITMUS TEST NAMING
+==================
+
+Litmus tests are usually named based on their contents, which means that
+looking at the name tells you what the litmus test does. The naming
+scheme covers litmus tests having a single cycle that passes through
+each process exactly once, so litmus tests not fitting this description
+are named on an ad-hoc basis.
+
+The structure of a litmus-test name is the litmus-test class, a plus
+sign ("+"), and one string for each process, separated by plus signs.
+The end of the name is ".litmus".
+
+The litmus-test classes may be found in the infamous test6.pdf:
+https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/ppc-supplemental/test6.pdf
+Each class defines the pattern of accesses and of the variables accessed.
+For example, if the one process writes to a pair of variables, and
+the other process reads from these same variables, the corresponding
+litmus-test class is "MP" (message passing), which may be found on the
+left-hand end of the second row of tests on page one of test6.pdf.
+
+The strings used to identify the actions carried out by each process are
+complex due to a desire to have short(er) names. Thus, there is a tool to
+generate these strings from a given litmus test's actions. For example,
+consider the processes from SB+rfionceonce-poonceonces.litmus:
+
+ P0(int *x, int *y)
+ {
+ int r1;
+ int r2;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(*x, 1);
+ r1 = READ_ONCE(*x);
+ r2 = READ_ONCE(*y);
+ }
+
+ P1(int *x, int *y)
+ {
+ int r3;
+ int r4;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(*y, 1);
+ r3 = READ_ONCE(*y);
+ r4 = READ_ONCE(*x);
+ }
+
+The next step is to construct a space-separated list of descriptors,
+interleaving descriptions of the relation between a pair of consecutive
+accesses with descriptions of the second access in the pair.
+
+P0()'s WRITE_ONCE() is read by its first READ_ONCE(), which is a
+reads-from link (rf) and internal to the P0() process. This is
+"rfi", which is an abbreviation for "reads-from internal". Because
+some of the tools string these abbreviations together with space
+characters separating processes, the first character is capitalized,
+resulting in "Rfi".
+
+P0()'s second access is a READ_ONCE(), as opposed to (for example)
+smp_load_acquire(), so next is "Once". Thus far, we have "Rfi Once".
+
+P0()'s third access is also a READ_ONCE(), but to y rather than x.
+This is related to P0()'s second access by program order ("po"),
+to a different variable ("d"), and both accesses are reads ("RR").
+The resulting descriptor is "PodRR". Because P0()'s third access is
+READ_ONCE(), we add another "Once" descriptor.
+
+A from-read ("fre") relation links P0()'s third to P1()'s first
+access, and the resulting descriptor is "Fre". P1()'s first access is
+WRITE_ONCE(), which as before gives the descriptor "Once". The string
+thus far is thus "Rfi Once PodRR Once Fre Once".
+
+The remainder of P1() is similar to P0(), which means we add
+"Rfi Once PodRR Once". Another fre links P1()'s last access to
+P0()'s first access, which is WRITE_ONCE(), so we add "Fre Once".
+The full string is thus:
+
+ Rfi Once PodRR Once Fre Once Rfi Once PodRR Once Fre Once
+
+This string can be given to the "norm7" and "classify7" tools to
+produce the name:
+
+ $ norm7 -bell linux-kernel.bell \
+ Rfi Once PodRR Once Fre Once Rfi Once PodRR Once Fre Once | \
+ sed -e 's/:.*//g'
+ SB+rfionceonce-poonceonces
+
+Adding the ".litmus" suffix: SB+rfionceonce-poonceonces.litmus
+
+The descriptors that describe connections between consecutive accesses
+within the cycle through a given litmus test can be provided by the herd
+tool (Rfi, Po, Fre, and so on) or by the linux-kernel.bell file (Once,
+Release, Acquire, and so on).
+
+To see the full list of descriptors, execute the following command:
+
+ $ diyone7 -bell linux-kernel.bell -show edges