linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Document herd7 (internal) representation

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Message-ID: <41bc01fa-ce02-4005-a3c2-abfabe1c6927@huaweicloud.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 15:40:13 +0200
From: Jonas Oberhauser <jonas.oberhauser@...weicloud.com>
To: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
 Hernan Ponce de Leon <hernan.poncedeleon@...weicloud.com>
Cc: stern@...land.harvard.edu, will@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Document herd7 (internal)
 representation



Am 5/27/2024 um 3:28 PM schrieb Andrea Parri:
>>> +    |                smp_store_mb | W[once] ->po F[mb]                        |
>>
>> I expect this one to be hard-coded in herd7 source code, but I cannot find
>> it. Can you give me a pointer?
> 
> smp_store_mb() is currently mapped to { __store{once}(X,V); __fence{mb}; } in
> the .def file, so it's semantically equivalent to "WRITE_ONCE(); smp_mb();".

By the way, I experimented a little with these kind of mappings to see 
if we can just explicitly encode the mapping there. E.g., I had an idea 
to use
     { __fence{mb-successful-rmw}; __cmpxchg{once}...; 
__fence{mb-successful-rmw}; }

for defining (almost) the current mapping of cmpxchg explicitly.

But none of the changes I made were accepted by herd7.

Do you know how the syntax works?

     jonas