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tools/memory-model: Add documentation of new litmus test
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 7 Mar 2018 17:27:39 +0000 (09:27 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 10 Mar 2018 09:22:23 +0000 (10:22 +0100)
The litmus-tests/README file lacks any mention of the new litmus test
ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus.  This commit therefore
adds a description of this test.

Reported-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1520443660-16858-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README

index dca7d823ad576575b2ab66f3fa979d229f701d4f..04096fb8b8d9158be2dc004847962dbd2bc03ff3 100644 (file)
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ IRIW+poonceonces+OnceOnce.litmus
        order of a pair of writes, where each write is to a different
        variable by a different process?
 
+ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus
+       Tests whether the ordering provided by a lock-protected S
+       litmus test is visible to an external process whose accesses are
+       separated by smp_mb().  This addition of an external process to
+       S is otherwise known as ISA2.
+
 ISA2+poonceonces.litmus
        As below, but with store-release replaced with WRITE_ONCE()
        and load-acquire replaced with READ_ONCE().