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| author | Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> | 2018-02-21 02:25:01 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2018-02-21 11:58:12 +0300 |
| commit | 48d44d4e8a583c66d9f376e18c1a1fcc445f4b64 (patch) | |
| tree | 36d58233b049b32ef7dbfa7e40a0c5a794be70ee /tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell | |
| parent | 862e6e2a609197f41bc04420b31ff122be9f870f (diff) | |
| download | linux-48d44d4e8a583c66d9f376e18c1a1fcc445f4b64.tar.xz | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell index 57112505f5e0..b984bbda01a5 100644 --- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell +++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ * 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*) || |