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authorAndrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>2018-02-21 02:25:01 +0300
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2018-02-21 11:58:12 +0300
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tools/memory-model: Clarify the origin/scope of the tool name
Ingo pointed out that: "The "memory model" name is overly generic, ambiguous and somewhat misleading, as we usually mean the virtual memory layout/model when we say "memory model". GCC too uses it in that sense [...]" Make it clear that tools/memory-model/ uses the term "memory model" as shorthand for "memory consistency model" by calling out this convention in tools/memory-model/README. Stick to the original "memory model" term in sources' headers and for the subsystem name. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: akiyks@gmail.com Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr Cc: nborisov@suse.com Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519169112-20593-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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* which is to appear in ASPLOS 2018.
*)
-"Linux kernel memory model"
+"Linux-kernel memory consistency model"
enum Accesses = 'once (*READ_ONCE,WRITE_ONCE,ACCESS_ONCE*) ||
'release (*smp_store_release*) ||