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Message-Id: <20200323015735.236279-2-joel@joelfernandes.org>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:57:33 -0400
From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 2/4] Documentation: LKMM: Add litmus test for RCU GP guarantee where updater frees object
This adds an example for the important RCU grace period guarantee, which
shows an RCU reader can never span a grace period.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
---
.../litmus-tests/rcu/RCU+sync+free.litmus | 42 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 Documentation/litmus-tests/rcu/RCU+sync+free.litmus
diff --git a/Documentation/litmus-tests/rcu/RCU+sync+free.litmus b/Documentation/litmus-tests/rcu/RCU+sync+free.litmus
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4ee67e12f513a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/litmus-tests/rcu/RCU+sync+free.litmus
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+C RCU+sync+free
+
+(*
+ * Result: Never
+ *
+ * This litmus test demonstrates that an RCU reader can never see a write that
+ * follows a grace period, if it did not see writes that precede that grace
+ * period.
+ *
+ * This is a typical pattern of RCU usage, where the write before the grace
+ * period assigns a pointer, and the writes following the grace period destroy
+ * the object that the pointer used to point to.
+ *
+ * This is one implication of the RCU grace-period guarantee, which says (among
+ * other things) that an RCU read-side critical section cannot span a grace period.
+ *)
+
+{
+int x = 1;
+int *y = &x;
+int z = 1;
+}
+
+P0(int *x, int *z, int **y)
+{
+ int *r0;
+ int r1;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ r0 = rcu_dereference(*y);
+ r1 = READ_ONCE(*r0);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
+P1(int *x, int *z, int **y)
+{
+ rcu_assign_pointer(*y, z);
+ synchronize_rcu();
+ WRITE_ONCE(*x, 0);
+}
+
+exists (0:r0=x /\ 0:r1=0)
--
2.25.1.696.g5e7596f4ac-goog
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