Re: [PATCH 7/7] microblaze: Do atomic operations by using exclusive ops

Andrea Parri
2020-02-13T14:01:29Z

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 02:51:38PM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 07:38:12PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > (Forget to copy Andrea in the previous email)
> >
> > Andrea, could you tell us more about how to use klitmus to generate test
> > modules from litmus test?
>
> The basic usage is described in "tools/memory-model/README", cf., in
> particular, the section dedicated to klitmus7 and the "REQUIREMENTS"
> section. For example, given the test,
>
> andrea@andrea:~$ cat atomicity.litmus
> C atomicity
>
> {
> atomic_t x = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
> }
>
> P0(atomic_t *x)
> {
> int r0;
>
> r0 = atomic_fetch_inc_relaxed(x);
> }
>
> P1(atomic_t *x)
> {
> atomic_set(x, 2);
> }
>
> exists (0:r0=0 /\ x=1)
>
> You should be able to do:
>
> $ mkdir mymodules
> $ klitmus7 -o mymodules atomicity.litmus
> $ cd mymodules ; make
> [...]
>
> $ sudo sh run.sh
> Thu 13 Feb 2020 02:21:52 PM CET
> Compilation command: klitmus7 -o mymodules atomicity.litmus
> OPT=
> uname -r=5.3.0-29-generic
>
> Test atomicity Allowed
> Histogram (2 states)
> 1963399 :>0:r0=0; x=2;
> 2036601 :>0:r0=2; x=3;
> No
>
> Witnesses
> Positive: 0, Negative: 4000000
> Condition exists (0:r0=0 /\ x=1) is NOT validated
> Hash=11bd2c90c4ca7a8acd9ca728a3d61d5f
> Observation atomicity Never 0 4000000
> Time atomicity 0.15
>
> Thu 13 Feb 2020 02:21:52 PM CET
>
> Where the "Positive: 0 Negative: 4000000" indicates that, during four
> million trials, the state specified in the test's "exists" clause was
> not reached/observed (as expected).
>
> More information are available at:
>
> http://diy.inria.fr/doc/litmus.html#klitmus

And I forgot to Cc: Luc and Jade, the main developers (and current
maintainers) of the tool suite in question.

Thanks,
Andrea