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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, stern@rowland.harvard.edu,
	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, nborisov@suse.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 01/12] tools/memory-model: Clarify the origin/scope of the tool name
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:25:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1519169112-20593-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180220232405.GA19274@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

From: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>

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 clear that tools/memory-model/ uses the term "memory model" as
shorthand for "memory consistency model" by calling out this convention
in tools/memory-model/README.

Stick to the original "memory model" term in sources' headers and for
the subsystem name.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 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(-)

diff --git a/tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS b/tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS
index 711cbe72d606..db3bd3fc0435 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-LINUX KERNEL MEMORY MODEL
+LINUX KERNEL MEMORY CONSISTENCY MODEL
 M:	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
 M:	Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
 M:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/README b/tools/memory-model/README
index 43ba49492111..91414a49fac5 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/README
+++ b/tools/memory-model/README
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
-			=========================
-			LINUX KERNEL MEMORY MODEL
-			=========================
+		=====================================
+		LINUX KERNEL MEMORY CONSISTENCY MODEL
+		=====================================
 
 ============
 INTRODUCTION
 ============
 
-This directory contains the memory model of the Linux kernel, written
-in the "cat" language and executable by the (externally provided)
-"herd7" simulator, which exhaustively explores the state space of
-small litmus tests.
+This directory contains the memory consistency model (memory model, for
+short) of the Linux kernel, written in the "cat" language and executable
+by the externally provided "herd7" simulator, which exhaustively explores
+the state space of small litmus tests.
 
 In addition, the "klitmus7" tool (also externally provided) may be used
 to convert a litmus test to a Linux kernel module, which in turn allows
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
index 57112505f5e0..b984bbda01a5 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
+++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * which is to appear in ASPLOS 2018.
  *)
 
-"Linux kernel memory model"
+"Linux-kernel memory consistency model"
 
 enum Accesses = 'once (*READ_ONCE,WRITE_ONCE,ACCESS_ONCE*) ||
 		'release (*smp_store_release*) ||
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
index 15b7a5dd8a9a..babe2b3b0bb3 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
+++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * which is to appear in ASPLOS 2018.
  *)
 
-"Linux kernel memory model"
+"Linux-kernel memory consistency model"
 
 (*
  * File "lock.cat" handles locks and is experimental.
-- 
2.5.2

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-20 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-20 23:24 [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 0/12] Miscellaneous fixes Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-20 23:25 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2018-02-21 10:39   ` [tip:locking/core] tools/memory-model: Clarify the origin/scope of the tool name tip-bot for Andrea Parri
2018-02-20 23:25 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 02/12] MAINTAINERS: Add the Memory Consistency Model subsystem Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 10:39   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Andrea Parri
2018-02-20 23:25 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 03/12] MAINTAINERS: List file memory-barriers.txt within the LKMM entry Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 10:40   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Andrea Parri
2018-02-20 23:25 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 04/12] EXP litmus_tests: Add comments explaining tests' purposes Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 10:40   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-20 23:25 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 05/12] README: Fix a couple of punctuation errors Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 10:41   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-20 23:25 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 06/12] MAINTAINERS: Add Akira Yokosawa as an LKMM reviewer Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 10:41   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-20 23:25 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 07/12] Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Cross-reference "tools/memory-model/" Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 10:42   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Andrea Parri
2018-02-20 23:25 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 08/12] memory-barriers: Fix description of data dependency barriers Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 10:42   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Nikolay Borisov
2018-02-20 23:25 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 09/12] tools/memory-model: Add required herd7 version to README file Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 10:43   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 15:10   ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 09/12] " Alan Stern
2018-02-21 16:15     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 16:51       ` Alan Stern
2018-02-20 23:25 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 10/12] tools/memory-model: Add a S lock-based external-view litmus test Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 10:43   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Alan Stern
2018-02-21 15:09   ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 10/12] " Alan Stern
2018-02-21 16:12     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 16:50       ` Alan Stern
2018-02-21 17:53         ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 18:38           ` Alan Stern
2018-02-21 19:05             ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 19:27               ` Alan Stern
2018-02-21 22:25                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-22  3:23   ` Boqun Feng
2018-02-22  4:13     ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-22  5:27       ` Boqun Feng
2018-02-22  5:42         ` Daniel Lustig
2018-02-22  6:58           ` Boqun Feng
2018-02-22 10:15             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-22 10:45               ` Boqun Feng
2018-02-22 11:59                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-22 10:06           ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-22 10:20             ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-02-20 23:25 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 11/12] tools/memory-model: Convert underscores to hyphens Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 10:44   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-20 23:25 ` [PATCH RFC tools/lkmm 12/12] tools/memory-model: Remove rb-dep, smp_read_barrier_depends, and lockless_dereference Paul E. McKenney
2018-02-21 10:45   ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Alan Stern

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