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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-05-13 20:10:19 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-05-13 20:10:19 +0300
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Merge tag 'lkmm.2024.05.10a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu
Pull LKMM documentation updates from Paul McKenney: "This upgrades LKMM documentation, perhaps most notably adding a number of litmus tests illustrating cmpxchg() ordering properties. TL;DR: Failing cmpxchg() operations provide no ordering" * tag 'lkmm.2024.05.10a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: Documentation/litmus-tests: Make cmpxchg() tests safe for klitmus Documentation/atomic_t: Emphasize that failed atomic operations give no ordering Documentation/litmus-tests: Demonstrate unordered failing cmpxchg Documentation/litmus-tests: Add locking tests to README
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/atomic_t.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/litmus-tests/README45
-rw-r--r--Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-ordered-1.litmus35
-rw-r--r--Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-ordered-2.litmus30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-unordered-1.litmus34
-rw-r--r--Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-unordered-2.litmus30
6 files changed, 176 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/atomic_t.txt b/Documentation/atomic_t.txt
index d7adc6d543db..bee3b1bca9a7 100644
--- a/Documentation/atomic_t.txt
+++ b/Documentation/atomic_t.txt
@@ -171,14 +171,14 @@ The rule of thumb:
- RMW operations that are conditional are unordered on FAILURE,
otherwise the above rules apply.
-Except of course when an operation has an explicit ordering like:
+Except of course when a successful operation has an explicit ordering like:
{}_relaxed: unordered
{}_acquire: the R of the RMW (or atomic_read) is an ACQUIRE
{}_release: the W of the RMW (or atomic_set) is a RELEASE
Where 'unordered' is against other memory locations. Address dependencies are
-not defeated.
+not defeated. Conditional operations are still unordered on FAILURE.
Fully ordered primitives are ordered against everything prior and everything
subsequent. Therefore a fully ordered primitive is like having an smp_mb()
diff --git a/Documentation/litmus-tests/README b/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
index 658d37860d39..6c666f3422ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
+++ b/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
@@ -21,6 +21,51 @@ Atomic-RMW-ops-are-atomic-WRT-atomic_set.litmus
Test that atomic_set() cannot break the atomicity of atomic RMWs.
NOTE: Require herd7 7.56 or later which supports "(void)expr".
+cmpxchg-fail-ordered-1.litmus
+ Demonstrate that a failing cmpxchg() operation acts as a full barrier
+ when followed by smp_mb__after_atomic().
+
+cmpxchg-fail-ordered-2.litmus
+ Demonstrate that a failing cmpxchg() operation acts as an acquire
+ operation when followed by smp_mb__after_atomic().
+
+cmpxchg-fail-unordered-1.litmus
+ Demonstrate that a failing cmpxchg() operation does not act as a
+ full barrier.
+
+cmpxchg-fail-unordered-2.litmus
+ Demonstrate that a failing cmpxchg() operation does not act as an
+ acquire operation.
+
+
+locking (/locking directory)
+----------------------------
+
+DCL-broken.litmus
+ Demonstrates that double-checked locking needs more than just
+ the obvious lock acquisitions and releases.
+
+DCL-fixed.litmus
+ Demonstrates corrected double-checked locking that uses
+ smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire() in addition to the
+ obvious lock acquisitions and releases.
+
+RM-broken.litmus
+ Demonstrates problems with "roach motel" locking, where code is
+ freely moved into lock-based critical sections. This example also
+ shows how to use the "filter" clause to discard executions that
+ would be excluded by other code not modeled in the litmus test.
+ Note also that this "roach motel" optimization is emulated by
+ physically moving P1()'s two reads from x under the lock.
+
+ What is a roach motel? This is from an old advertisement for
+ a cockroach trap, much later featured in one of the "Men in
+ Black" movies. "The roaches check in. They don't check out."
+
+RM-fixed.litmus
+ The counterpart to RM-broken.litmus, showing P0()'s two loads from
+ x safely outside of the critical section.
+
RCU (/rcu directory)
--------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-ordered-1.litmus b/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-ordered-1.litmus
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c0f93dc07105
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-ordered-1.litmus
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+C cmpxchg-fail-ordered-1
+
+(*
+ * Result: Never
+ *
+ * Demonstrate that a failing cmpxchg() operation will act as a full
+ * barrier when followed by smp_mb__after_atomic().
+ *)
+
+{}
+
+P0(int *x, int *y, int *z)
+{
+ int r0;
+ int r1;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(*x, 1);
+ r1 = cmpxchg(z, 1, 0);
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
+ r0 = READ_ONCE(*y);
+}
+
+P1(int *x, int *y, int *z)
+{
+ int r0;
+ int r1;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(*y, 1);
+ r1 = cmpxchg(z, 1, 0);
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
+ r0 = READ_ONCE(*x);
+}
+
+locations[0:r1;1:r1]
+exists (0:r0=0 /\ 1:r0=0)
diff --git a/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-ordered-2.litmus b/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-ordered-2.litmus
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5c06054f4694
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-ordered-2.litmus
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+C cmpxchg-fail-ordered-2
+
+(*
+ * Result: Never
+ *
+ * Demonstrate use of smp_mb__after_atomic() to make a failing cmpxchg
+ * operation have acquire ordering.
+ *)
+
+{}
+
+P0(int *x, int *y)
+{
+ int r1;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(*x, 1);
+ r1 = cmpxchg(y, 0, 1);
+}
+
+P1(int *x, int *y)
+{
+ int r1;
+ int r2;
+
+ r1 = cmpxchg(y, 0, 1);
+ smp_mb__after_atomic();
+ r2 = READ_ONCE(*x);
+}
+
+exists (0:r1=0 /\ 1:r1=1 /\ 1:r2=0)
diff --git a/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-unordered-1.litmus b/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-unordered-1.litmus
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..39ea1f56a28d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-unordered-1.litmus
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+C cmpxchg-fail-unordered-1
+
+(*
+ * Result: Sometimes
+ *
+ * Demonstrate that a failing cmpxchg() operation does not act as a
+ * full barrier. (In contrast, a successful cmpxchg() does act as a
+ * full barrier.)
+ *)
+
+{}
+
+P0(int *x, int *y, int *z)
+{
+ int r0;
+ int r1;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(*x, 1);
+ r1 = cmpxchg(z, 1, 0);
+ r0 = READ_ONCE(*y);
+}
+
+P1(int *x, int *y, int *z)
+{
+ int r0;
+ int r1;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(*y, 1);
+ r1 = cmpxchg(z, 1, 0);
+ r0 = READ_ONCE(*x);
+}
+
+locations[0:r1;1:r1]
+exists (0:r0=0 /\ 1:r0=0)
diff --git a/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-unordered-2.litmus b/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-unordered-2.litmus
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..61aab24a4a64
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/cmpxchg-fail-unordered-2.litmus
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+C cmpxchg-fail-unordered-2
+
+(*
+ * Result: Sometimes
+ *
+ * Demonstrate that a failing cmpxchg() operation does not act as either
+ * an acquire release operation. (In contrast, a successful cmpxchg()
+ * does act as both an acquire and a release operation.)
+ *)
+
+{}
+
+P0(int *x, int *y)
+{
+ int r1;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(*x, 1);
+ r1 = cmpxchg(y, 0, 1);
+}
+
+P1(int *x, int *y)
+{
+ int r1;
+ int r2;
+
+ r1 = cmpxchg(y, 0, 1);
+ r2 = READ_ONCE(*x);
+}
+
+exists (0:r1=0 /\ 1:r1=1 /\ 1:r2=0)