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Subject: [tip:locking/core] tools/memory-model: Add more LKMM limitations
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 03:12:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-d8fa25c4efde0e5f31a427202e583d73d3f021c4@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180926182920.27644-4-paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Commit-ID: d8fa25c4efde0e5f31a427202e583d73d3f021c4
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/d8fa25c4efde0e5f31a427202e583d73d3f021c4
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
AuthorDate: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 11:29:19 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 10:28:04 +0200
tools/memory-model: Add more LKMM limitations
This commit adds more detail about compiler optimizations and
not-yet-modeled Linux-kernel APIs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
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
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180926182920.27644-4-paulmck@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
tools/memory-model/README | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/README b/tools/memory-model/README
index ee987ce20aae..acf9077cffaa 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/README
+++ b/tools/memory-model/README
@@ -171,6 +171,12 @@ The Linux-kernel memory model has the following limitations:
particular, the "THE PROGRAM ORDER RELATION: po AND po-loc"
and "A WARNING" sections).
+ Note that this limitation in turn limits LKMM's ability to
+ accurately model address, control, and data dependencies.
+ For example, if the compiler can deduce the value of some variable
+ carrying a dependency, then the compiler can break that dependency
+ by substituting a constant of that value.
+
2. Multiple access sizes for a single variable are not supported,
and neither are misaligned or partially overlapping accesses.
@@ -190,6 +196,36 @@ The Linux-kernel memory model has the following limitations:
However, a substantial amount of support is provided for these
operations, as shown in the linux-kernel.def file.
+ a. When rcu_assign_pointer() is passed NULL, the Linux
+ kernel provides no ordering, but LKMM models this
+ case as a store release.
+
+ b. The "unless" RMW operations are not currently modeled:
+ atomic_long_add_unless(), atomic_add_unless(),
+ atomic_inc_unless_negative(), and
+ atomic_dec_unless_positive(). These can be emulated
+ in litmus tests, for example, by using atomic_cmpxchg().
+
+ c. The call_rcu() function is not modeled. It can be
+ emulated in litmus tests by adding another process that
+ invokes synchronize_rcu() and the body of the callback
+ function, with (for example) a release-acquire from
+ the site of the emulated call_rcu() to the beginning
+ of the additional process.
+
+ d. The rcu_barrier() function is not modeled. It can be
+ emulated in litmus tests emulating call_rcu() via
+ (for example) a release-acquire from the end of each
+ additional call_rcu() process to the site of the
+ emulated rcu-barrier().
+
+ e. Sleepable RCU (SRCU) is not modeled. It can be
+ emulated, but perhaps not simply.
+
+ f. Reader-writer locking is not modeled. It can be
+ emulated in litmus tests using atomic read-modify-write
+ operations.
+
The "herd7" tool has some additional limitations of its own, apart from
the memory model:
@@ -204,3 +240,6 @@ the memory model:
Some of these limitations may be overcome in the future, but others are
more likely to be addressed by incorporating the Linux-kernel memory model
into other tools.
+
+Finally, please note that LKMM is subject to change as hardware, use cases,
+and compilers evolve.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-02 10:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-26 18:28 [PATCH memory-model 0/5] Updates to the formal memory model Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-26 18:29 ` [PATCH memory-model 1/5] tools/memory-model: Add litmus-test naming scheme Paul E. McKenney
2018-10-02 10:10 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2018-09-26 18:29 ` [PATCH memory-model 2/5] tools/memory-model: Add extra ordering for locks and remove it for ordinary release/acquire Paul E. McKenney
2018-10-02 10:11 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for Alan Stern
2021-09-08 11:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-08 11:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-08 14:42 ` Alan Stern
2021-09-08 15:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-08 16:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-09 7:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-09 13:35 ` Will Deacon
2021-09-09 17:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-09-09 18:59 ` Alan Stern
2021-09-09 17:03 ` Dan Lustig
2021-09-09 18:00 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-10 14:20 ` Boqun Feng
2021-09-10 15:33 ` Palmer Dabbelt
2021-09-10 16:36 ` Alan Stern
2021-09-10 17:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-10 17:56 ` Alan Stern
2021-09-10 17:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-12 0:26 ` Boqun Feng
2021-09-10 0:01 ` Boqun Feng
2021-09-10 5:37 ` Boqun Feng
2021-09-10 9:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-10 10:04 ` Boqun Feng
2021-09-10 13:48 ` Dan Lustig
2021-09-10 14:15 ` Boqun Feng
2021-09-09 17:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-10 11:08 ` Will Deacon
2021-09-17 3:21 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-09-17 5:31 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-09-17 14:36 ` Michael Ellerman
2018-09-26 18:29 ` [PATCH memory-model 3/5] tools/memory-model: Fix a README typo Paul E. McKenney
2018-10-02 10:11 ` [tip:locking/core] " tip-bot for SeongJae Park
2018-09-26 18:29 ` [PATCH memory-model 4/5] tools/memory-model: Add more LKMM limitations Paul E. McKenney
2018-10-02 10:12 ` tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2018-09-26 18:29 ` [PATCH memory-model 5/5] doc: Replace smp_cond_acquire() with smp_cond_load_acquire() Paul E. McKenney
2018-10-02 10:12 ` [tip:locking/core] locking/memory-barriers: " tip-bot for Andrea Parri
2018-10-02 8:28 ` [PATCH memory-model 0/5] Updates to the formal memory model Ingo Molnar
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