linux/Documentation/litmus-tests
Akira Yokosawa cdaac9d6d2 Documentation/litmus-tests: Merge atomic's README into top-level one
Where Documentation/litmus-tests/README lists RCU litmus tests,
Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README lists atomic litmus tests.
For symmetry, merge the latter into former, with some context
adjustment in the introduction.

Acked-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-06-29 12:05:18 -07:00
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atomic Documentation/litmus-tests: Merge atomic's README into top-level one 2020-06-29 12:05:18 -07:00
rcu Documentation: LKMM: Add litmus test for RCU GP guarantee where reader stores 2020-06-29 12:05:18 -07:00
README Documentation/litmus-tests: Merge atomic's README into top-level one 2020-06-29 12:05:18 -07:00

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LITMUS TESTS
============

Each subdirectory contains litmus tests that are typical to describe the
semantics of respective kernel APIs.
For more information about how to "run" a litmus test or how to generate
a kernel test module based on a litmus test, please see
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
    the RMW are ordered before the subsequential memory accesses.

Atomic-RMW-ops-are-atomic-WRT-atomic_set.litmus
    Test that atomic_set() cannot break the atomicity of atomic RMWs.


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.