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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org,
	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
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 04/10] EXP litmus_tests:  Add comments explaining tests' purposes
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2018 17:05:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180210010503.GD3617@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1802091345180.1460-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 01:46:30PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> 
> > This commit adds comments to the litmus tests summarizing what these
> > tests are intended to demonstrate.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > [ paulmck: Apply Andrea's and Alan's feedback. ]
> > ---
> 
> > --- a/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/IRIW+poonceonces+OnceOnce.litmus
> > +++ b/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/IRIW+poonceonces+OnceOnce.litmus
> > @@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
> >  C IRIW+poonceonces+OnceOnce
> >  
> > +(*
> > + * Result: Never
> > + *
> > + * Test of independent reads from independent writes with nothing
> > + * between each pairs of reads.  In other words, is anything at all
> > + * needed to cause two different reading processes to agree on the order
> > + * of a pair of writes, where each write is to a different variable by a
> > + * different process?
> > + *)
> 
> The result should be Sometimes.

Right you are, and better yet, the memory model agrees with you.

I have fixed this, thank you for the careful review!

							Thanx, Paul

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-10  1:04 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 ` [PATCH RFC tip/lkmm 01/10] tools/memory-model: Clarify the origin/scope of the tool name Paul E. McKenney
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 [this message]
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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