tools/memory-model: Expand the cheatsheet.txt notion of relaxed
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tue, 4 Aug 2020 18:35:56 +0000 (11:35 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Fri, 4 Sep 2020 18:58:15 +0000 (11:58 -0700)
This commit adds a key entry enumerating the various types of relaxed
operations.  While in the area, it also renames the relaxed rows.

[ paulmck: Apply Boqun Feng feedback. ]
Acked-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt

index 33ba98d..99d0087 100644 (file)
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
                                C  Self  R  W  RMW  Self  R  W  DR  DW  RMW  SV
                               --  ----  -  -  ---  ----  -  -  --  --  ---  --
 
-Store, e.g., WRITE_ONCE()            Y                                       Y
-Load, e.g., READ_ONCE()              Y                          Y   Y        Y
-Unsuccessful RMW operation           Y                          Y   Y        Y
+Relaxed store                        Y                                       Y
+Relaxed load                         Y                          Y   Y        Y
+Relaxed RMW operation                Y                          Y   Y        Y
 rcu_dereference()                    Y                          Y   Y        Y
 Successful *_acquire()               R                   Y  Y   Y   Y    Y   Y
 Successful *_release()         C        Y  Y    Y     W                      Y
@@ -17,14 +17,19 @@ smp_mb__before_atomic()       CP        Y  Y    Y        a  a   a   a    Y
 smp_mb__after_atomic()        CP        a  a    Y        Y  Y   Y   Y    Y
 
 
-Key:   C:      Ordering is cumulative
-       P:      Ordering propagates
-       R:      Read, for example, READ_ONCE(), or read portion of RMW
-       W:      Write, for example, WRITE_ONCE(), or write portion of RMW
-       Y:      Provides ordering
-       a:      Provides ordering given intervening RMW atomic operation
-       DR:     Dependent read (address dependency)
-       DW:     Dependent write (address, data, or control dependency)
-       RMW:    Atomic read-modify-write operation
-       SELF:   Orders self, as opposed to accesses before and/or after
-       SV:     Orders later accesses to the same variable
+Key:   Relaxed:  A relaxed operation is either READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(),
+                 a *_relaxed() RMW operation, an unsuccessful RMW
+                 operation, a non-value-returning RMW operation such
+                 as atomic_inc(), or one of the atomic*_read() and
+                 atomic*_set() family of operations.
+       C:        Ordering is cumulative
+       P:        Ordering propagates
+       R:        Read, for example, READ_ONCE(), or read portion of RMW
+       W:        Write, for example, WRITE_ONCE(), or write portion of RMW
+       Y:        Provides ordering
+       a:        Provides ordering given intervening RMW atomic operation
+       DR:       Dependent read (address dependency)
+       DW:       Dependent write (address, data, or control dependency)
+       RMW:      Atomic read-modify-write operation
+       SELF:     Orders self, as opposed to accesses before and/or after
+       SV:       Orders later accesses to the same variable