Re: [PATCH RESEND 3/4] Documentation/litmus-tests: Merge atomic's README into top-level one
From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu May 14 2020 - 13:16:58 EST
On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 08:46:18AM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 06:39:03AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> > From 96fa6680e3b990633ecbb6d11acf03a161b790bd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 15:12:57 +0900
> > Subject: [PATCH RESEND 3/4] Documentation/litmus-tests: Merge atomic's README into top-level one
> >
> > Where Documentation/litmus-tests/README lists RCU litmus tests,
> > Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README lists atomic litmus tests.
> > For symmetry, merge the latter into former, with some context
> > adjustment in the introduction.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks!
Applied, and thank you all!
I rebased, cancelling the revert with the original, resulting in an
updated lkmm branch on -rcu. There was one minor conflict, so could
one of you please check to make sure that I resolved things appropriately?
Thanx, Paul
> Regards,
> Boqun
>
> > ---
> > Documentation/litmus-tests/README | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
> > Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README | 16 ----------------
> > 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > delete mode 100644 Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/litmus-tests/README b/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
> > index c4307ea9f996..ac0b270b456c 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
> > +++ b/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
> > @@ -2,6 +2,25 @@
> > 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.
> > +
> > +
> > RCU (/rcu directory)
> > --------------------
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README b/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README
> > deleted file mode 100644
> > index 714cf93816ea..000000000000
> > --- a/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README
> > +++ /dev/null
> > @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
> > -This directory contains litmus tests that are typical to describe the semantics
> > -of our atomic 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.
> > -
> > -============
> > -LITMUS TESTS
> > -============
> > -
> > -Atomic-RMW+mb__after_atomic-is-stronger-than-acquire
> > - 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.
> > --
> > 2.17.1
> >
> >