Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] tools/memory-model: Define applicable tags on operation in tools/...

[Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 12:57:07PM +0200, Jonas Oberhauser wrote:
> Herd7 transforms reads, writes, and read-modify-writes by eliminating
> 'acquire tags from writes, 'release tags from reads, and 'acquire,
> 'release, and 'mb tags from failed read-modify-writes. We emulate this
> behavior by redefining Acquire, Release, and Mb sets in linux-kernel.bell
> to explicitly exclude those combinations.
> 
> Herd7 furthermore adds 'noreturn tag to certain reads. Currently herd7
> does not allow specifying the 'noreturn tag manually, but such manual
> declaration (e.g., through a syntax __atomic_op{noreturn}) would add
> invalid 'noreturn tags to writes; in preparation, we already also exclude
> this combination.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Oberhauser <jonas.oberhauser@huaweicloud.com>

Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>

Regards,
Boqun

> ---
>  tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
> index dba6b5b6dee0..7c9ae48b9437 100644
> --- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
> +++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
> @@ -36,6 +36,17 @@ enum Barriers = 'wmb (*smp_wmb*) ||
>  		'after-srcu-read-unlock (*smp_mb__after_srcu_read_unlock*)
>  instructions F[Barriers]
>  
> +
> +(*
> + * Filter out syntactic annotations that do not provide the corresponding
> + * semantic ordering, such as Acquire on a store or Mb on a failed RMW.
> + *)
> +let FailedRMW = RMW \ (domain(rmw) | range(rmw))
> +let Acquire = Acquire \ W \ FailedRMW
> +let Release = Release \ R \ FailedRMW
> +let Mb = Mb \ FailedRMW
> +let Noreturn = Noreturn \ W
> +
>  (* SRCU *)
>  enum SRCU = 'srcu-lock || 'srcu-unlock || 'sync-srcu
>  instructions SRCU[SRCU]
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>