From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752143AbeBANkj (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2018 08:40:39 -0500 Received: from usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:50406 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751582AbeBANke (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Feb 2018 08:40:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:40:35 +0000 From: Will Deacon To: Andrea Parri 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 Message-ID: <20180201134035.GD9182@arm.com> References: <1517486609-10951-1-git-send-email-parri.andrea@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1517486609-10951-1-git-send-email-parri.andrea@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri > --- > 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