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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


  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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