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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<vpillai@digitalocean.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
	Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr>,
	Daniel Lustig <dlustig@nvidia.com>, <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] tools/memory-model, Documentation/litmus-test: Sort out location of litmus test and README
Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 09:44:22 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2005120942100.21033-100000@netrider.rowland.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200512021309.GA197229@google.com>

On Mon, 11 May 2020, Joel Fernandes wrote:

> From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
> Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 22:06:46 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] docs: litmus-tests: Clarify about the RCU pre-initialization
>  test
> 
> Since this test was moved to tools/memory-model/, make sure that it is
> at least referenced from Documentation/litmus-tests/'s README.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/litmus-tests/README | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/litmus-tests/README b/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
> index ac0b270b456c1..53f09e74734a4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
> +++ b/Documentation/litmus-tests/README
> @@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ tools/memory-model/README.
>  
>  atomic (/atomic derectory)
>  --------------------------
> -
>  Atomic-RMW+mb__after_atomic-is-stronger-than-acquire.litmus
>      Test that an atomic RMW followed by a smp_mb__after_atomic() is
>      stronger than a normal acquire: both the read and write parts of
> @@ -23,8 +22,11 @@ Atomic-RMW-ops-are-atomic-WRT-atomic_set.litmus
>  
>  RCU (/rcu directory)
>  --------------------
> -
>  RCU+sync+read.litmus
>  RCU+sync+free.litmus
>      Both the above litmus tests demonstrate the RCU grace period guarantee
>      that an RCU read-side critical section can never span a grace period.
> +
> +MP+onceassign+derefonce.litmus (moved to tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/)
> +   Demonstrates that rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_dereference() to
> +   ensure that an RCU reader will not see pre-initialization garbage.

The grammar in this sentence is awful.  Should the first "that" be 
changed to "the use of"?

Alan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-12 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-23  1:57 [PATCH v2 1/4] Documentation: LKMM: Move MP+onceassign+derefonce to new litmus-tests/rcu/ Joel Fernandes (Google)
2020-03-23  1:57 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] Documentation: LKMM: Add litmus test for RCU GP guarantee where updater frees object Joel Fernandes (Google)
2020-03-23  1:57 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] Documentation: LKMM: Add litmus test for RCU GP guarantee where reader stores Joel Fernandes (Google)
2020-03-23  1:57 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] MAINTAINERS: Update maintainers for new Documentaion/litmus-tests/ Joel Fernandes (Google)
2020-03-23  6:18   ` Boqun Feng
2020-03-23  8:59   ` Andrea Parri
2020-03-23 17:35     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-09  3:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] Documentation: LKMM: Move MP+onceassign+derefonce to new litmus-tests/rcu/ Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-10  7:21   ` [PATCH 0/3] tools/memory-model, Documentation/litmus-test: Sort out location of litmus test and README Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-10  7:23     ` [PATCH 1/3] tools/memory-model: Fix reference to litmus test in recipes.txt Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-10  7:24     ` [PATCH 2/3] Revert "Documentation: LKMM: Move MP+onceassign+derefonce to new litmus-tests/rcu/" Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-10  7:28     ` [PATCH 3/3] Documentation/litmus-tests: Merge atomic's README into top-level one Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-10 12:57     ` [PATCH 0/3] tools/memory-model, Documentation/litmus-test: Sort out location of litmus test and README Andrea Parri
2020-05-11 17:33     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-12  2:13       ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-12 11:50         ` Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-12 12:19           ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-12 14:19             ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-12 14:39               ` Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-12 15:40                 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-12 13:44         ` Alan Stern [this message]
2020-05-12 15:07     ` [PATCH 4/3] docs: litmus-tests: Clarify about the RCU pre-initialization test Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-12 15:25       ` Alan Stern
2020-05-12 15:41       ` Joel Fernandes
2020-05-12 16:30         ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-12 21:33           ` [PATCH RESEND 0/4] tools/memory-model, Documentation/litmus-test: Sort out, location of litmus test and README Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-12 21:36             ` [PATCH RESEND 1/4] tools/memory-model: Fix reference to litmus test in recipes.txt Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-12 21:37             ` [PATCH RESEND 2/4] Revert "Documentation: LKMM: Move MP+onceassign+derefonce to new litmus-tests/rcu/" Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-12 21:39             ` [PATCH RESEND 3/4] Documentation/litmus-tests: Merge atomic's README into top-level one Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-14  0:46               ` Boqun Feng
2020-05-14 17:16                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-14 22:03                   ` Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-14 22:45                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-15 15:01                       ` Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-15 15:05                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-16 17:02                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-05-12 21:40             ` [PATCH RESEND 4/4] docs: litmus-tests: Clarify about the RCU pre-initialization test Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-12 21:43           ` [PATCH 4/3] " Joel Fernandes
2020-05-12 21:49             ` Akira Yokosawa
2020-05-12 22:52               ` Joel Fernandes

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