From 48d44d4e8a583c66d9f376e18c1a1fcc445f4b64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Parri Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 15:25:01 -0800 Subject: tools/memory-model: Clarify the origin/scope of the tool name Ingo pointed out that: "The "memory model" name is overly generic, ambiguous and somewhat misleading, as we usually mean the virtual memory layout/model when we say "memory model". GCC too uses it in that sense [...]" Make it clear that tools/memory-model/ uses the term "memory model" as shorthand for "memory consistency model" by calling out this convention in tools/memory-model/README. Stick to the original "memory model" term in sources' headers and for the subsystem name. Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Alan Stern Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Thomas Gleixner 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: nborisov@suse.com Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519169112-20593-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell') diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell index 57112505f5e0..b984bbda01a5 100644 --- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell +++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ * which is to appear in ASPLOS 2018. *) -"Linux kernel memory model" +"Linux-kernel memory consistency model" enum Accesses = 'once (*READ_ONCE,WRITE_ONCE,ACCESS_ONCE*) || 'release (*smp_store_release*) || -- cgit v1.2.3