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+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
+(*
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
+ * Copyright (C) 2016 Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr> for Inria
+ * Copyright (C) 2017 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
+ * Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * An earlier version of this file appeared in the companion webpage for
+ * "Frightening small children and disconcerting grown-ups: Concurrency
+ * in the Linux kernel" by Alglave, Maranget, McKenney, Parri, and Stern,
+ * which appeared in ASPLOS 2018.
+ *)
+
+"Linux-kernel memory consistency model"
+
+enum Accesses = 'once (*READ_ONCE,WRITE_ONCE*) ||
+ 'release (*smp_store_release*) ||
+ 'acquire (*smp_load_acquire*) ||
+ 'noreturn (* R of non-return RMW *)
+instructions R[{'once,'acquire,'noreturn}]
+instructions W[{'once,'release}]
+instructions RMW[{'once,'acquire,'release}]
+
+enum Barriers = 'wmb (*smp_wmb*) ||
+ 'rmb (*smp_rmb*) ||
+ 'mb (*smp_mb*) ||
+ 'rcu-lock (*rcu_read_lock*) ||
+ 'rcu-unlock (*rcu_read_unlock*) ||
+ 'sync-rcu (*synchronize_rcu*) ||
+ 'before-atomic (*smp_mb__before_atomic*) ||
+ 'after-atomic (*smp_mb__after_atomic*) ||
+ 'after-spinlock (*smp_mb__after_spinlock*)
+instructions F[Barriers]
+
+(* Compute matching pairs of nested Rcu-lock and Rcu-unlock *)
+let matched = let rec
+ unmatched-locks = Rcu-lock \ domain(matched)
+ and unmatched-unlocks = Rcu-unlock \ range(matched)
+ and unmatched = unmatched-locks | unmatched-unlocks
+ and unmatched-po = [unmatched] ; po ; [unmatched]
+ and unmatched-locks-to-unlocks =
+ [unmatched-locks] ; po ; [unmatched-unlocks]
+ and matched = matched | (unmatched-locks-to-unlocks \
+ (unmatched-po ; unmatched-po))
+ in matched
+
+(* Validate nesting *)
+flag ~empty Rcu-lock \ domain(matched) as unbalanced-rcu-locking
+flag ~empty Rcu-unlock \ range(matched) as unbalanced-rcu-locking
+
+(* Outermost level of nesting only *)
+let crit = matched \ (po^-1 ; matched ; po^-1)