From: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
To: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu, peterz@infradead.org,
boqun.feng@gmail.com, npiggin@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk, luc.maranget@inria.fr,
paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mingo@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/memory-model: clarify the origin/scope of the tool name
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:40:35 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180201134035.GD9182@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1517486609-10951-1-git-send-email-parri.andrea@gmail.com>
On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 01:03:29PM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote:
> 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 clearer that, in the context of tools/memory-model/, the term
> "memory-model" is used as shorthand for "memory consistency model" by
> calling out this convention in tools/memory-model/README.
>
> Stick to the full name in sources' headers and for the subsystem name.
>
> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.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(-)
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-01 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-01 12:03 [PATCH 1/2] tools/memory-model: clarify the origin/scope of the tool name Andrea Parri
2018-02-01 13:40 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2018-02-01 15:26 ` Alan Stern
2018-02-01 23:09 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-02 8:54 ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-02 23:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-02 23:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-02 10:44 ` Andrea Parri
2018-02-02 23:19 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-02 23:46 ` Andrea Parri
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