Re: New locking test for the paulmckrcu/litmus github archive

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 10:07:35AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 02:40:05PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 11:25:11AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > Thank you both!
> > > 
> > > I queued and pushed the following commit, please let me know if it
> > > needs adjustment.
> > > 
> > > 							Thanx, Paul
> > > 
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > commit fb65813a7a181cd86c50bb03f9df1f6a398fa22b
> > > Author: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Wed Jun 5 11:20:47 2024 -0700
> > > 
> > >     manual/locked: Add single-threaded spin_is_locked() test
> > >     
> > >     This new litmus test demonstrates a bug in the current LKMM lock.cat file.
> > >     This bug results in the following output:
> > >     
> > >             Test CoWWW+sil-lock-sil-unlock-sil Allowed
> > >             States 0
> > >             No
> > >             Witnesses
> > >             Positive: 0 Negative: 0
> > >             Condition exists (0:r0=0 /\ 0:r1=1 /\ 0:r2=0)
> > >             Observation CoWWW+sil-lock-sil-unlock-sil Never 0 0
> > >             Time CoWWW+sil-lock-sil-unlock-sil 0.01
> > >             Hash=cf12d53b4d1afec2e46bf9886af219c8
> > >     
> > >     This is consistent with a deadlock.  After the fix, there should be one
> > >     execution that matches the "exists" clause, hence an "Always" result.
> > 
> > The part about being consistent with a deadlock is not very important; 
> > I'd omit it.  Also, the second sentence is ambiguous; change it to:
> 
> Good point, the deadlock is irrelevant.  If I want to make that point,
> I can add a test that really does deadlock.  ;-)
> 
> > 	After the fix, there should be one execution that matches the 
> > 	"exists" clause and no executions that don't match, hence an 
> > 	"Always" result.
> 
> I ended up with the following:
> 
> 	This has no executions.  After the fix, there is one execution
> 	that matches the "exists" clause and no executions that do not
> 	match, hence an "Always" result.
> 
> The reason for explicitly stating "This has no executions" is that a
> lot of people never have seen such a thing.

Okay.  Don't we already have a litmus test in the archive that really 
does create a deadlock?  Something like: Lock Lock Unlock Unlock, all 
using the same lock variable?

> > > diff --git a/manual/locked/CoWWW+sil-lock-sil-unlock-sil.litmus b/manual/locked/CoWWW+sil-lock-sil-unlock-sil.litmus
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 00000000..cee5abf4
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/manual/locked/CoWWW+sil-lock-sil-unlock-sil.litmus
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
> > > +C CoWWW+sil-lock-sil-unlock-sil.litmus
> > 
> > Where does the "CoWWW" part of the name come from?  If it refers to 
> > coherence order and three writes, I'll point out that the litmus test 
> > contains only two writes -- which would better be described as a lock 
> > and an unlock.  (Or are you counting the "write" that sets the lock's 
> > initial value?)
> 
> The CoWWW comes from me having been confused.  The new filename is
> CoWW+sil-lock-sil-unlock-sil.litmus.  Thank you for spotting this!

All right, but what does the "CoWW" part stand for?

> > > +
> > > +(*
> > > + * Result: Always
> > > + *
> > > + * This tests the memory model's implementation of spin_is_locked().
> > > + *)
> > > +
> > > +{}
> > > +
> > > +P0(spinlock_t *x)
> > > +{
> > > +        int r0;
> > 
> > Oops!  Apparently I managed not to convert the spaces on that line to a 
> > tab.  Can you take care of that?
> 
> Done!  Please see below for the updated commit.
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> commit d4d216a08b4bedb8cdb0f57a224a4e331b35b931
> Author: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Jun 5 11:20:47 2024 -0700
> 
>     manual/locked: Add single-threaded spin_is_locked() test
>     
>     This new litmus test demonstrates a bug in the current LKMM lock.cat file.
>     This bug results in the following output:
>     
>             Test CoWW+sil-lock-sil-unlock-sil Allowed
>             States 0
>             No
>             Witnesses
>             Positive: 0 Negative: 0
>             Condition exists (0:r0=0 /\ 0:r1=1 /\ 0:r2=0)
>             Observation CoWWW+sil-lock-sil-unlock-sil Never 0 0
>             Time CoWWW+sil-lock-sil-unlock-sil 0.01

Maybe you better re-run this with the updated litmus test file.  Those 
two lines aren't right.

Alan