Re: [PATCH 2/3] LKMM: Add litmus test for RCU GP guarantee where reader stores

[Joel Fernandes]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 11:03:30AM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2020, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> 
> > This adds an example for the important RCU grace period guarantee, which
> > shows an RCU reader can never span a grace period.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  .../litmus-tests/RCU+sync+read.litmus         | 37 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/RCU+sync+read.litmus
> > 
> > diff --git a/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/RCU+sync+read.litmus b/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/RCU+sync+read.litmus
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000000..73557772e2a32
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/RCU+sync+read.litmus
> 
> Do these new tests really belong here?  I thought we were adding a new 
> directory under Documentation/ for litmus tests that illustrate parts 
> of the LKMM or memory-barriers.txt.
> 
> By contrast, the tests under tools/memory-model are merely to show 
> people what litmus tests look like and how they should be written.

I could add it to tools/memory-model/Documentation/ under a new
'examples' directory there. We could also create an 'rcu' directory in
tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/ and add these there. Thoughts?

thanks,

 - Joel