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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@fb.com, mingo@kernel.org
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu, parri.andrea@gmail.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,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH memory-model 2/3] tools/memory-model: doc: Describe the requirement of the litmus-tests directory
Date: Wed,  1 Dec 2021 16:50:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20211202005053.3131071-2-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211202005027.GA3130970@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1>

From: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>

It's better that we have some "standard" about which test should be put
in the litmus-tests directory because it helps future contributors
understand whether they should work on litmus-tests in kernel or Paul's
GitHub repo. Therefore explain a little bit on what a "representative"
litmus test is.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
 tools/memory-model/README | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/memory-model/README b/tools/memory-model/README
index 9a84c45504ab6..9edd402704c4f 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/README
+++ b/tools/memory-model/README
@@ -195,6 +195,18 @@ litmus-tests
 	are listed in litmus-tests/README.  A great deal more litmus
 	tests are available at https://github.com/paulmckrcu/litmus.
 
+	By "representative", it means the one in the litmus-tests
+	directory is:
+
+		1) simple, the number of threads should be relatively
+		   small and each thread function should be relatively
+		   simple.
+		2) orthogonal, there should be no two litmus tests
+		   describing the same aspect of the memory model.
+		3) textbook, developers can easily copy-paste-modify
+		   the litmus tests to use the patterns on their own
+		   code.
+
 lock.cat
 	Provides a front-end analysis of lock acquisition and release,
 	for example, associating a lock acquisition with the preceding
-- 
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-02  0:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-02  0:50 [PATCH memory-model 0/3] LKMM updates for v5.17 Paul E. McKenney
2021-12-02  0:50 ` [PATCH memory-model 1/3] tools/memory-model: Provide extra ordering for unlock+lock pair on the same CPU Paul E. McKenney
2021-12-02  0:50 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2021-12-02  0:50 ` [PATCH memory-model 3/3] tools/memory-model: litmus: Add two tests for unlock(A)+lock(B) ordering Paul E. McKenney

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