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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu,
	parri.andrea@gmail.com, will.deacon@arm.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, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 01/10] tools/memory-model: Clarify the origin/scope of the tool name
Date: Fri,  9 Feb 2018 06:20:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1518186031-17997-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180209141832.GA17505@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

From: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>

Ingo pointed out that:

  "The "memory model" name is overly generic, ambiguous and somewhat
   misleading, as we usually mean the virtual memory layout/model
   when we say "memory model". GCC too uses it in that sense [...]"

Make it clear that tools/memory-model/ uses the term "memory model" as
shorthand for "memory consistency model" by calling out this convention
in tools/memory-model/README.

Stick to the original "memory model" term in sources' headers and for
the subsystem name.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS       |  2 +-
 tools/memory-model/README            | 14 +++++++-------
 tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell |  2 +-
 tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat  |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS b/tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS
index 711cbe72d606..db3bd3fc0435 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-LINUX KERNEL MEMORY MODEL
+LINUX KERNEL MEMORY CONSISTENCY MODEL
 M:	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
 M:	Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
 M:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/README b/tools/memory-model/README
index 43ba49492111..91414a49fac5 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/README
+++ b/tools/memory-model/README
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-			=========================
-			LINUX KERNEL MEMORY MODEL
-			=========================
+		=====================================
+		LINUX KERNEL MEMORY CONSISTENCY MODEL
+		=====================================
 
 ============
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This directory contains the memory model of the Linux kernel, written
-in the "cat" language and executable by the (externally provided)
-"herd7" simulator, which exhaustively explores the state space of
-small litmus tests.
+This directory contains the memory consistency model (memory model, for
+short) of the Linux kernel, written in the "cat" language and executable
+by the externally provided "herd7" simulator, which exhaustively explores
+the state space of small litmus tests.
 
 In addition, the "klitmus7" tool (also externally provided) may be used
 to convert a litmus test to a Linux kernel module, which in turn allows
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
index 57112505f5e0..b984bbda01a5 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
+++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * which is to appear in ASPLOS 2018.
  *)
 
-"Linux kernel memory model"
+"Linux-kernel memory consistency model"
 
 enum Accesses = 'once (*READ_ONCE,WRITE_ONCE,ACCESS_ONCE*) ||
 		'release (*smp_store_release*) ||
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
index 15b7a5dd8a9a..babe2b3b0bb3 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
+++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * which is to appear in ASPLOS 2018.
  *)
 
-"Linux kernel memory model"
+"Linux-kernel memory consistency model"
 
 (*
  * File "lock.cat" handles locks and is experimental.
-- 
2.5.2

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-09 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-09 14:18 [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm] Miscellaneous fixes Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-09 14:20 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2018-02-09 14:20 ` [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 02/10] MAINTAINERS: Add the Memory Consistency Model subsystem Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-09 14:20 ` [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 03/10] MAINTAINERS: List file memory-barriers.txt within the LKMM entry Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-09 14:20 ` [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 04/10] EXP litmus_tests: Add comments explaining tests' purposes Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-09 18:46   ` Alan Stern
2018-02-10  1:05     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-09 14:20 ` [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 05/10] README: Fix a couple of punctuation errors Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-09 14:20 ` [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 06/10] EXP MAINTAINERS: Add the "LKMM" acronym Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-09 14:20 ` [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 07/10] MAINTAINERS: Add Akira Yokosawa as an LKMM reviewer Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-09 14:20 ` [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 08/10] EXP Remove understore from smp_mb__before_atomic() workings Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-15 22:30   ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-15 22:49     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-15 23:19       ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-15 23:32         ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-09 14:20 ` [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 09/10] EXP Remove underscore from smp_mb__after_atomic() workings Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-09 14:20 ` [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 10/10] EXP Remove underscores from smp_mb__after_spinlock() workings Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-09 16:02 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm] Miscellaneous fixes Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-09 16:06   ` [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Restore compat with herd7 7.47 ("-" -> "_") Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-09 23:46   ` [PATCH v2] tools/memory-model: Make " Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-10  1:07     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-10  3:03       ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-11 11:51       ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-13  1:38         ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-13  8:32           ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-14 22:20       ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-14 22:52         ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-15 15:10           ` Alan Stern
2018-02-15 15:58             ` Trial of conflict resolution of Alan's patch Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-15 17:51               ` Alan Stern
2018-02-15 19:29                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-15 21:51                   ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-16 15:18                     ` Alan Stern
2018-02-16 15:47                       ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-16 16:53                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-16 22:22                           ` [PATCH] tools/memory-model: remove rb-dep, smp_read_barrier_depends, and lockless_dereference Alan Stern
2018-02-16 23:22                             ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-17  0:39                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 15:00                               ` Alan Stern
2018-02-21 16:06                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 16:51                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2018-02-21 17:53                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 17:15                                   ` [PATCH] tools/memory-model: update: " Alan Stern
2018-02-21 17:58                                     ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-21 18:14                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 18:00                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 22:29                                     ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-24  3:22                                       ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-24  3:30                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-24 14:36                                           ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-24 16:49                                             ` Alan Stern
2018-02-24 18:08                                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-24 22:47                                                 ` Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-25 22:33                                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-17  3:25                             ` [PATCH] tools/memory-model: " Andrea Parri
2018-02-17 15:14                               ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-19 17:14                                 ` Alan Stern
2018-02-19 17:43                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-19 17:44                                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-20 14:48                                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-20 15:17                                       ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-20 16:11                                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-19 19:41                                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-19 20:28                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-20 14:49                                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-20 15:11                                         ` Alan Stern
2018-02-20 16:10                                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-20  9:33                                   ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-20  9:51                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-20 15:38                                     ` Alan Stern
2018-02-15 22:05                   ` Trial of conflict resolution of Alan's patch Andrea Parri
2018-02-15 22:41                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-18 15:46           ` [PATCH v2] tools/memory-model: Make compat with herd7 7.47 ("-" -> "_") Akira Yokosawa
2018-02-20 14:57             ` Paul E. McKenney

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