From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@meta.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>,
Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH memory-model 1/3] Documentation/litmus-tests: Add locking tests to README
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 12:26:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240404192649.531112-1-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8550daf1-4bfd-4607-8325-bfb7c1e2d8c7@paulmck-laptop>
This commit documents the litmus tests in the "locking" directory.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
---
Documentation/litmus-tests/README | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/litmus-tests/README b/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
index 658d37860d397..5c8915e6fb684 100644
--- a/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
+++ b/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
@@ -22,6 +22,35 @@ Atomic-RMW-ops-are-atomic-WRT-atomic_set.litmus
NOTE: Require herd7 7.56 or later which supports "(void)expr".
+locking (/locking directory)
+----------------------------
+
+DCL-broken.litmus
+ Demonstrates that double-checked locking needs more than just
+ the obvious lock acquisitions and releases.
+
+DCL-fixed.litmus
+ Demonstrates corrected double-checked locking that uses
+ smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire() in addition to the
+ obvious lock acquisitions and releases.
+
+RM-broken.litmus
+ Demonstrates problems with "roach motel" locking, where code is
+ freely moved into lock-based critical sections. This example also
+ shows how to use the "filter" clause to discard executions that
+ would be excluded by other code not modeled in the litmus test.
+ Note also that this "roach motel" optimization is emulated by
+ physically moving P1()'s two reads from x under the lock.
+
+ What is a roach motel? This is from an old advertisement for
+ a cockroach trap, much later featured in one of the "Men in
+ Black" movies. "The roaches check in. They don't check out."
+
+RM-fixed.litmus
+ The counterpart to RM-broken.litmus, showing P0()'s two loads from
+ x safely outside of the critical section.
+
+
RCU (/rcu directory)
--------------------
--
2.40.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-04 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-04 19:26 [PATCH memory-model 0/3] LKMM updates for v6.10 Paul E. McKenney
2024-04-04 19:26 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2024-04-04 19:26 ` [PATCH memory-model 2/3] Documentation/litmus-tests: Demonstrate unordered failing cmpxchg Paul E. McKenney
2024-04-05 10:05 ` Andrea Parri
2024-04-08 20:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-04-09 10:43 ` Andrea Parri
2024-04-04 19:26 ` [PATCH memory-model 3/3] Documentation/atomic_t: Emphasize that failed atomic operations give no ordering Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-01 23:21 ` [PATCH v2 memory-model 0/3] LKMM updates for v6.10 Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-01 23:21 ` [PATCH memory-model 1/4] Documentation/litmus-tests: Add locking tests to README Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-01 23:21 ` [PATCH memory-model 2/4] Documentation/litmus-tests: Demonstrate unordered failing cmpxchg Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-06 10:05 ` Jonas Oberhauser
2024-05-06 16:30 ` Jonas Oberhauser
2024-05-06 18:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-06 19:21 ` Alan Stern
2024-05-07 9:03 ` Jonas Oberhauser
2024-05-08 1:17 ` Andrea Parri
2024-05-07 9:11 ` Jonas Oberhauser
2024-05-15 6:44 ` Hernan Ponce de Leon
2024-05-15 15:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-01 23:21 ` [PATCH memory-model 3/4] Documentation/atomic_t: Emphasize that failed atomic operations give no ordering Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-01 23:21 ` [PATCH memory-model 4/4] Documentation/litmus-tests: Make cmpxchg() tests safe for klitmus Paul E. McKenney
2024-05-02 9:36 ` [PATCH v2 memory-model 0/3] LKMM updates for v6.10 Andrea Parri
2024-05-02 13:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
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