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authorPaul E. McKenney2018-05-15 01:33:43 +0200
committerIngo Molnar2018-05-15 08:11:16 +0200
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parenttools/memory-model: Fix cheat sheet typo (diff)
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tools/memory-order: Improve key for SELF and SV
The key for "SELF" was missing completely and the key for "SV" was a bit obtuse. This commit therefore adds a key for "SELF" and improves the one for "SV". Reported-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: akiyks@gmail.com Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1526340837-12222-5-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt3
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diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt
index c0eafdaddfa4..46fe79afc737 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt
+++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt
@@ -26,4 +26,5 @@ Key: C: Ordering is cumulative
DR: Dependent read (address dependency)
DW: Dependent write (address, data, or control dependency)
RMW: Atomic read-modify-write operation
- SV Same-variable access
+ SELF: Orders self, as opposed to accesses before and/or after
+ SV: Orders later accesses to the same variable