From: paulmck@kernel.org
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@fb.com, mingo@kernel.org
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu, parri.andrea@gmail.com,
will@kernel.org, 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,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH kcsan 6/9] tools/memory-model: Expand the cheatsheet.txt notion of relaxed
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:20:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200831182037.2034-6-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200831182012.GA1965@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72>
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a key entry enumerating the various types of relaxed
operations.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt | 27 ++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt
index 33ba98d..31b814d 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt
+++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
Store, e.g., WRITE_ONCE() Y Y
Load, e.g., READ_ONCE() Y Y Y Y
-Unsuccessful RMW operation Y Y Y Y
+Relaxed operation Y Y Y Y
rcu_dereference() Y Y Y Y
Successful *_acquire() R Y Y Y Y Y Y
Successful *_release() C Y Y Y W Y
@@ -17,14 +17,17 @@ smp_mb__before_atomic() CP Y Y Y a a a a Y
smp_mb__after_atomic() CP a a Y Y Y Y Y Y
-Key: C: Ordering is cumulative
- P: Ordering propagates
- R: Read, for example, READ_ONCE(), or read portion of RMW
- W: Write, for example, WRITE_ONCE(), or write portion of RMW
- Y: Provides ordering
- a: Provides ordering given intervening RMW atomic operation
- DR: Dependent read (address dependency)
- DW: Dependent write (address, data, or control dependency)
- RMW: Atomic read-modify-write operation
- SELF: Orders self, as opposed to accesses before and/or after
- SV: Orders later accesses to the same variable
+Key: Relaxed: A relaxed operation is either a *_relaxed() RMW
+ operation, an unsuccessful RMW operation, or one of
+ the atomic_read() and atomic_set() family of operations.
+ C: Ordering is cumulative
+ P: Ordering propagates
+ R: Read, for example, READ_ONCE(), or read portion of RMW
+ W: Write, for example, WRITE_ONCE(), or write portion of RMW
+ Y: Provides ordering
+ a: Provides ordering given intervening RMW atomic operation
+ DR: Dependent read (address dependency)
+ DW: Dependent write (address, data, or control dependency)
+ RMW: Atomic read-modify-write operation
+ SELF: Orders self, as opposed to accesses before and/or after
+ SV: Orders later accesses to the same variable
--
2.9.5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-31 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-31 18:20 [PATCH memory-model 0/9] LKMM updates for v5.10 Paul E. McKenney
2020-08-31 18:20 ` [PATCH kcsan 1/9] docs: fix references for DMA*.txt files paulmck
2020-08-31 18:20 ` [PATCH kcsan 2/9] Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: LKMM paulmck
2020-08-31 18:20 ` [PATCH kcsan 3/9] tools/memory-model: Update recipes.txt prime_numbers.c path paulmck
2020-08-31 18:20 ` [PATCH kcsan 4/9] tools/memory-model: Improve litmus-test documentation paulmck
2020-08-31 18:20 ` [PATCH kcsan 5/9] tools/memory-model: Add a simple entry point document paulmck
2020-08-31 18:20 ` paulmck [this message]
2020-09-02 3:54 ` [PATCH kcsan 6/9] tools/memory-model: Expand the cheatsheet.txt notion of relaxed Boqun Feng
2020-09-02 10:14 ` peterz
2020-09-02 12:37 ` Boqun Feng
2020-09-02 12:47 ` peterz
2020-09-03 23:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-09-04 0:59 ` Boqun Feng
2020-09-04 2:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-09-04 2:47 ` Boqun Feng
2020-09-04 19:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-08-31 18:20 ` [PATCH kcsan 7/9] tools/memory-model: Move Documentation description to Documentation/README paulmck
2020-08-31 18:20 ` [PATCH kcsan 8/9] tools/memory-model: Document categories of ordering primitives paulmck
2020-08-31 22:34 ` Akira Yokosawa
2020-08-31 23:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-09-01 1:23 ` Alan Stern
2020-09-01 2:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-08-31 18:20 ` [PATCH kcsan 9/9] tools/memory-model: Document locking corner cases paulmck
2020-08-31 20:17 ` Alan Stern
2020-08-31 21:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-09-01 1:45 ` Alan Stern
2020-09-01 17:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-09-01 20:11 ` Alan Stern
2020-09-03 23:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-09-04 19:52 ` Alan Stern
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