linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] tools/memory-model, Documentation/litmus-test: Sort out location of litmus test and README

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Date:   Sun, 10 May 2020 16:21:02 +0900
From:   Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
To:     "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vpillai@...italocean.com,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jade Alglave <j.alglave@....ac.uk>,
        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>,
        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] tools/memory-model, Documentation/litmus-test: Sort out
 location of litmus test and README

On Sat, 9 May 2020 12:43:30 +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> Hi Joel,
> 
> Sorry for the late response but I've noticed some glitches.
>  
> On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:57:32 -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
>> Move MP+onceassign+derefonce to the new Documentation/litmus-tests/rcu/
>> directory.
> 
> MP+onceassign+derefonce.litmus is called out in
> tools/memory-model/Documentation/recipes.txt as a representative example
> of RCU related litmus test.
> 
> So I think it should be kept under tools/memory-model/litmus-tests.
> 
> Further RCU-related litmus tests can be added under Documentation/litmus-tests/.
> 
> IIUC, this change is not picked up by tip tree yet. So we have time to respin
> the series targeting v5.9.
> 
>>
>> More RCU-related litmus tests would be added here.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
>>
>> ---
>> Cc: vpillai@...italocean.com
>>
>>  Documentation/litmus-tests/README                        | 9 +++++++++
> 
> Please note that later patches to add atomic litmus tests under
> Documentation/litmus-tests/ by Boqun put README as
> Documentation/litums-tests/atomic/README.
> 
> This patch's location of RCU's README as Documentation/litmus-tests/README
> looks asymmetric to me.
> 
> I'm OK with either merging atomic's README with the top-level one or
> moving RCU's README to under Documentation/litmus-tests/rcu.
> 
> Joel, Boqum, can you sort out the location of README?

So something like this?

Patch 1/3 is an independent typo fix in recipes.txt.
Patch 2/3 reverts the MP+onceassign+derefonce relocation.
Patch 3/3 merges atomic's README into the top-level one.

This is relative to -rcu's lkmm branch.

Thoughts?

        Thanks, Akira
--
Akira Yokosawa (3):
  tools/memory-model: Fix reference to litmus test in recipes.txt
  Revert "Documentation: LKMM: Move MP+onceassign+derefonce to new
    litmus-tests/rcu/"
  Documentation/litmus-tests: Merge atomic's README into top-level one

 Documentation/litmus-tests/README             | 22 ++++++++++++++++---
 Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README      | 16 --------------
 tools/memory-model/Documentation/recipes.txt  |  2 +-
 .../MP+onceassign+derefonce.litmus            |  0
 tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README        |  3 +++
 5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README
 rename {Documentation/litmus-tests/rcu => tools/memory-model/litmus-tests}/MP+onceassign+derefonce.litmus (100%)

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