From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tools/memory-model] Add litmus-test naming scheme Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 10:30:50 +0100 Message-ID: <20180529093050.GB6533@arm.com> References: <20180525191020.GA5914@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180525191020.GA5914@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com, peterz@infradead.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com, npiggin@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com, j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk, luc.maranget@inria.fr, akiyks@gmail.com, mingo@kernel.org List-Id: linux-arch.vger.kernel.org Hi Paul, On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:10:20PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > This commit documents the scheme used to generate the names for the > litmus tests. > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney > --- > README | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 135 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Whilst I think documentation like this is extremely important for users, this feels like it's documenting how to drive parts of diy and I'm not convinced that it belongs in the kernel source tree as long as the projects remain separate. Why not contribute this to the herdtools7 documentation, then just reference that from here? That would also be helpful for other people interested in memory models, but perhaps not interested in Linux (assuming such people exist ;). Cheers, Will From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:35876 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932231AbeE2JaV (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2018 05:30:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 10:30:50 +0100 From: Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tools/memory-model] Add litmus-test naming scheme Message-ID: <20180529093050.GB6533@arm.com> References: <20180525191020.GA5914@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180525191020.GA5914@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu, andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com, peterz@infradead.org, boqun.feng@gmail.com, npiggin@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com, j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk, luc.maranget@inria.fr, akiyks@gmail.com, mingo@kernel.org Message-ID: <20180529093050.XTiYpAdmllyjk6HQTDRq5NK2hgjDyxVbmH9_LzBCJfs@z> Hi Paul, On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:10:20PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > This commit documents the scheme used to generate the names for the > litmus tests. > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney > --- > README | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 135 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Whilst I think documentation like this is extremely important for users, this feels like it's documenting how to drive parts of diy and I'm not convinced that it belongs in the kernel source tree as long as the projects remain separate. Why not contribute this to the herdtools7 documentation, then just reference that from here? That would also be helpful for other people interested in memory models, but perhaps not interested in Linux (assuming such people exist ;). Cheers, Will