[RFC][PATCH 3/4] tools/memory-model: Define effect of Mb tags on RMWs in tools/...

[Jonas Oberhauser]

Herd7 transforms successful RMW with Mb tags by inserting smp_mb() fences
around them. We emulate this by considering imaginary po-edges before the
RMW read and before the RMW write, and extending the smp_mb() ordering
rule, which currently only applies to real po edges that would be found
around a really inserted smp_mb(), also to cases of the only imagined po
edges.

Reported-by: Viktor Vafeiadis <viktor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jonas Oberhauser <jonas.oberhauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
index adf3c4f41229..3a6e9677abe4 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
+++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
@@ -34,6 +34,15 @@ let R4rmb = R \ Noreturn	(* Reads for which rmb works *)
 let rmb = [R4rmb] ; fencerel(Rmb) ; [R4rmb]
 let wmb = [W] ; fencerel(Wmb) ; [W]
 let mb = ([M] ; fencerel(Mb) ; [M]) |
+	(* full-barrier RMWs (successful cmpxchg(), xchg(), etc.) act as
+	 * though there were enclosed by smp_mb().
+	 * The effect of these virtual smp_mb() is formalized by adding
+	 * Mb tags to the read and write of the operation, and providing
+	 * the same ordering as though there were additional po edges
+	 * between the Mb tag and the read resp. write.
+	 *)
+	([M] ; po ; [Mb] ; (* po ; *) [R]) |
+	([W] ; (* po ; *) [Mb] ; po ; [M]) |
 	([M] ; fencerel(Before-atomic) ; [RMW] ; po? ; [M]) |
 	([M] ; po? ; [RMW] ; fencerel(After-atomic) ; [M]) |
 	([M] ; po? ; [LKW] ; fencerel(After-spinlock) ; [M]) |
-- 
2.34.1