linux-kernel - [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Remove out-of-date SRCU documentation

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Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2023 02:37:51 +0100
From:   Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
To:     stern@...land.harvard.edu, will@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        boqun.feng@...il.com, npiggin@...il.com, dhowells@...hat.com,
        j.alglave@....ac.uk, luc.maranget@...ia.fr, paulmck@...nel.org,
        akiyks@...il.com, dlustig@...dia.com, joel@...lfernandes.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Remove out-of-date SRCU documentation

Commit 6cd244c87428 ("tools/memory-model: Provide exact SRCU semantics")
changed the semantics of partially overlapping SRCU read-side critical
sections (among other things), making such documentation out-of-date.
The new, semantic changes are discussed in explanation.txt.  Remove the
out-of-date documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
---
 .../Documentation/litmus-tests.txt            | 27 +------------------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/litmus-tests.txt b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/litmus-tests.txt
index 26554b1c5575e..acac527328a1f 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/litmus-tests.txt
+++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/litmus-tests.txt
@@ -1028,32 +1028,7 @@ Limitations of the Linux-kernel memory model (LKMM) include:
 		additional call_rcu() process to the site of the
 		emulated rcu-barrier().
 
-	e.	Although sleepable RCU (SRCU) is now modeled, there
-		are some subtle differences between its semantics and
-		those in the Linux kernel.  For example, the kernel
-		might interpret the following sequence as two partially
-		overlapping SRCU read-side critical sections:
-
-			 1  r1 = srcu_read_lock(&my_srcu);
-			 2  do_something_1();
-			 3  r2 = srcu_read_lock(&my_srcu);
-			 4  do_something_2();
-			 5  srcu_read_unlock(&my_srcu, r1);
-			 6  do_something_3();
-			 7  srcu_read_unlock(&my_srcu, r2);
-
-		In contrast, LKMM will interpret this as a nested pair of
-		SRCU read-side critical sections, with the outer critical
-		section spanning lines 1-7 and the inner critical section
-		spanning lines 3-5.
-
-		This difference would be more of a concern had anyone
-		identified a reasonable use case for partially overlapping
-		SRCU read-side critical sections.  For more information
-		on the trickiness of such overlapping, please see:
-		https://paulmck.livejournal.com/40593.html
-
-	f.	Reader-writer locking is not modeled.  It can be
+	e.	Reader-writer locking is not modeled.  It can be
 		emulated in litmus tests using atomic read-modify-write
 		operations.
 
-- 
2.34.1