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Akira Yokosawa 5ef0a07a79 Documentation/litmus-tests: Add note on herd7 7.56 in atomic litmus test
herdtools 7.56 has enhanced herd7's C parser so that the "(void)expr"
construct in Atomic-RMW-ops-are-atomic-WRT-atomic_set.litmus is
accepted.

This is independent of LKMM's cat model, so mention the required
version in the header of the litmus test and its entry in README.

CC: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-06-29 12:05:18 -07:00
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atomic Documentation/litmus-tests: Add note on herd7 7.56 in atomic litmus test 2020-06-29 12:05:18 -07:00
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README Documentation/litmus-tests: Add note on herd7 7.56 in atomic litmus test 2020-06-29 12:05:18 -07:00

============
LITMUS TESTS
============

Each subdirectory contains litmus tests that are typical to describe the
semantics of respective kernel APIs.
For more information about how to "run" a litmus test or how to generate
a kernel test module based on a litmus test, please see
tools/memory-model/README.


atomic (/atomic derectory)
--------------------------

Atomic-RMW+mb__after_atomic-is-stronger-than-acquire.litmus
    Test that an atomic RMW followed by a smp_mb__after_atomic() is
    stronger than a normal acquire: both the read and write parts of
    the RMW are ordered before the subsequential memory accesses.

Atomic-RMW-ops-are-atomic-WRT-atomic_set.litmus
    Test that atomic_set() cannot break the atomicity of atomic RMWs.
    NOTE: Require herd7 7.56 or later which supports "(void)expr".


RCU (/rcu directory)
--------------------

MP+onceassign+derefonce.litmus (under tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/)
    Demonstrates the use of rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_dereference() to
    ensure that an RCU reader will not see pre-initialization garbage.

RCU+sync+read.litmus
RCU+sync+free.litmus
    Both the above litmus tests demonstrate the RCU grace period guarantee
    that an RCU read-side critical section can never span a grace period.