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From: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Jonas Oberhauser <jonas.oberhauser@huawei.com>,
	will@kernel.org, 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, dlustig@nvidia.com,
	joel@joelfernandes.org, urezki@gmail.com,
	quic_neeraju@quicinc.com, frederic@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tools/memory-model: Make ppo a subrelation of po
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 20:40:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y/0HEESX2wDWtPS1@andrea> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y/rEH2r9i0BtfxEW@rowland.harvard.edu>

> The LKMM doesn't believe that a control or data dependency orders a 
> plain write after a marked read.  Hence in this test it thinks that P1's 
> store to u0 can happen before the load of x1.  I don't remember why we 
> did it this way -- probably we just wanted to minimize the restrictions 
> on when plain accesses can execute.  (I do remember the reason for 
> making address dependencies induce order; it was so RCU would work.)
> 
> The patch below will change what the LKMM believes.  It eliminates the 
> positive outcome of the litmus test and the data race.  Should it be 
> adopted into the memory model?

(Unpopular opinion I know,) it should drop dependencies ordering, not
add/promote it.

  Andrea

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-27 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-24 13:52 [PATCH v3] tools/memory-model: Make ppo a subrelation of po Jonas Oberhauser
2023-02-24 15:32 ` Alan Stern
2023-02-24 18:37   ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-26  1:01     ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-26  2:29       ` Alan Stern
2023-02-26  3:03         ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-26 18:49           ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-26  3:09         ` Boqun Feng
2023-02-26  3:30           ` Alan Stern
2023-02-26 11:17             ` Jonas Oberhauser
2023-02-26 16:51               ` Alan Stern
2023-02-26 18:45                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-26 19:32                   ` Alan Stern
2023-02-27 14:03                 ` Jonas Oberhauser
2023-02-27 16:16                   ` Alan Stern
2023-02-27 16:50                     ` Jonas Oberhauser
2023-02-27 18:41                       ` Alan Stern
2023-02-27 19:40         ` Andrea Parri [this message]
2023-02-27 20:13           ` Jonas Oberhauser
2023-02-27 22:21             ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-28  8:49               ` Jonas Oberhauser
2023-02-28 15:40                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-03-01 10:52                   ` Jonas Oberhauser
2023-03-02  1:42                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-26  2:58       ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-02-26 16:23 ` Joel Fernandes
2023-02-27 14:39   ` Jonas Oberhauser
2023-02-27 17:57     ` Joel Fernandes
2023-02-27 20:24       ` Jonas Oberhauser
2023-02-27 19:35 ` Andrea Parri
2023-02-28 22:01   ` Paul E. McKenney

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