tools/memory-model: Clarify the origin/scope of the tool name
authorAndrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Tue, 20 Feb 2018 23:25:01 +0000 (15:25 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 08:58:12 +0000 (09:58 +0100)
commit48d44d4e8a583c66d9f376e18c1a1fcc445f4b64
tree36d58233b049b32ef7dbfa7e40a0c5a794be70ee
parent862e6e2a609197f41bc04420b31ff122be9f870f
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>
tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS
tools/memory-model/README
tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat