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+This directory contains the following litmus tests:
+
+CoRR+poonceonce+Once.litmus
+ Test of read-read coherence, that is, whether or not two
+ successive reads from the same variable are ordered.
+
+CoRW+poonceonce+Once.litmus
+ Test of read-write coherence, that is, whether or not a read
+ from a given variable followed by a write to that same variable
+ are ordered.
+
+CoWR+poonceonce+Once.litmus
+ Test of write-read coherence, that is, whether or not a write
+ to a given variable followed by a read from that same variable
+ are ordered.
+
+CoWW+poonceonce.litmus
+ Test of write-write coherence, that is, whether or not two
+ successive writes to the same variable are ordered.
+
+IRIW+fencembonceonces+OnceOnce.litmus
+ Test of independent reads from independent writes with smp_mb()
+ between each pairs of reads. In other words, is smp_mb()
+ sufficient to cause two different reading processes to agree on
+ the order of a pair of writes, where each write is to a different
+ variable by a different process? This litmus test is forbidden
+ by LKMM's propagation rule.
+
+IRIW+poonceonces+OnceOnce.litmus
+ Test of independent reads from independent writes with nothing
+ between each pairs of reads. In other words, is anything at all
+ needed to cause two different reading processes to agree on the
+ order of a pair of writes, where each write is to a different
+ variable by a different process?
+
+ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus
+ Tests whether the ordering provided by a lock-protected S
+ litmus test is visible to an external process whose accesses are
+ separated by smp_mb(). This addition of an external process to
+ S is otherwise known as ISA2.
+
+ISA2+poonceonces.litmus
+ As below, but with store-release replaced with WRITE_ONCE()
+ and load-acquire replaced with READ_ONCE().
+
+ISA2+pooncerelease+poacquirerelease+poacquireonce.litmus
+ Can a release-acquire chain order a prior store against
+ a later load?
+
+LB+fencembonceonce+ctrlonceonce.litmus
+ Does a control dependency and an smp_mb() suffice for the
+ load-buffering litmus test, where each process reads from one
+ of two variables then writes to the other?
+
+LB+poacquireonce+pooncerelease.litmus
+ Does a release-acquire pair suffice for the load-buffering
+ litmus test, where each process reads from one of two variables then
+ writes to the other?
+
+LB+poonceonces.litmus
+ As above, but with store-release replaced with WRITE_ONCE()
+ and load-acquire replaced with READ_ONCE().
+
+MP+onceassign+derefonce.litmus
+ As below, but with rcu_assign_pointer() and an rcu_dereference().
+
+MP+polockmbonce+poacquiresilsil.litmus
+ Protect the access with a lock and an smp_mb__after_spinlock()
+ in one process, and use an acquire load followed by a pair of
+ spin_is_locked() calls in the other process.
+
+MP+polockonce+poacquiresilsil.litmus
+ Protect the access with a lock in one process, and use an
+ acquire load followed by a pair of spin_is_locked() calls
+ in the other process.
+
+MP+polocks.litmus
+ As below, but with the second access of the writer process
+ and the first access of reader process protected by a lock.
+
+MP+poonceonces.litmus
+ As below, but without the smp_rmb() and smp_wmb().
+
+MP+pooncerelease+poacquireonce.litmus
+ As below, but with a release-acquire chain.
+
+MP+porevlocks.litmus
+ As below, but with the first access of the writer process
+ and the second access of reader process protected by a lock.
+
+MP+fencewmbonceonce+fencermbonceonce.litmus
+ Does a smp_wmb() (between the stores) and an smp_rmb() (between
+ the loads) suffice for the message-passing litmus test, where one
+ process writes data and then a flag, and the other process reads
+ the flag and then the data. (This is similar to the ISA2 tests,
+ but with two processes instead of three.)
+
+R+fencembonceonces.litmus
+ This is the fully ordered (via smp_mb()) version of one of
+ the classic counterintuitive litmus tests that illustrates the
+ effects of store propagation delays.
+
+R+poonceonces.litmus
+ As above, but without the smp_mb() invocations.
+
+SB+fencembonceonces.litmus
+ This is the fully ordered (again, via smp_mb() version of store
+ buffering, which forms the core of Dekker's mutual-exclusion
+ algorithm.
+
+SB+poonceonces.litmus
+ As above, but without the smp_mb() invocations.
+
+SB+rfionceonce-poonceonces.litmus
+ This litmus test demonstrates that LKMM is not fully multicopy
+ atomic. (Neither is it other multicopy atomic.) This litmus test
+ also demonstrates the "locations" debugging aid, which designates
+ additional registers and locations to be printed out in the dump
+ of final states in the herd7 output. Without the "locations"
+ statement, only those registers and locations mentioned in the
+ "exists" clause will be printed.
+
+S+poonceonces.litmus
+ As below, but without the smp_wmb() and acquire load.
+
+S+fencewmbonceonce+poacquireonce.litmus
+ Can a smp_wmb(), instead of a release, and an acquire order
+ a prior store against a subsequent store?
+
+WRC+poonceonces+Once.litmus
+WRC+pooncerelease+fencermbonceonce+Once.litmus
+ These two are members of an extension of the MP litmus-test
+ class in which the first write is moved to a separate process.
+ The second is forbidden because smp_store_release() is
+ A-cumulative in LKMM.
+
+Z6.0+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus
+ Is the ordering provided by a spin_unlock() and a subsequent
+ spin_lock() sufficient to make ordering apparent to accesses
+ by a process not holding the lock?
+
+Z6.0+pooncelock+poonceLock+pombonce.litmus
+ As above, but with smp_mb__after_spinlock() immediately
+ following the spin_lock().
+
+Z6.0+pooncerelease+poacquirerelease+fencembonceonce.litmus
+ Is the ordering provided by a release-acquire chain sufficient
+ to make ordering apparent to accesses by a process that does
+ not participate in that release-acquire chain?
+
+A great many more litmus tests are available here:
+
+ https://github.com/paulmckrcu/litmus