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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

  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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