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+============
+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().
+
+LB+unlocklockonceonce+poacquireonce.litmus
+ Does a unlock+lock pair provides ordering guarantee between a
+ load and a store?
+
+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+unlocklockonceonce+fencermbonceonce.litmus
+ Does a unlock+lock pair provides ordering guarantee between a
+ store and another store?
+
+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
+
+==================
+LITMUS TEST NAMING
+==================
+
+Litmus tests are usually named based on their contents, which means that
+looking at the name tells you what the litmus test does. The naming
+scheme covers litmus tests having a single cycle that passes through
+each process exactly once, so litmus tests not fitting this description
+are named on an ad-hoc basis.
+
+The structure of a litmus-test name is the litmus-test class, a plus
+sign ("+"), and one string for each process, separated by plus signs.
+The end of the name is ".litmus".
+
+The litmus-test classes may be found in the infamous test6.pdf:
+https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/ppc-supplemental/test6.pdf
+Each class defines the pattern of accesses and of the variables accessed.
+For example, if the one process writes to a pair of variables, and
+the other process reads from these same variables, the corresponding
+litmus-test class is "MP" (message passing), which may be found on the
+left-hand end of the second row of tests on page one of test6.pdf.
+
+The strings used to identify the actions carried out by each process are
+complex due to a desire to have short(er) names. Thus, there is a tool to
+generate these strings from a given litmus test's actions. For example,
+consider the processes from SB+rfionceonce-poonceonces.litmus:
+
+ P0(int *x, int *y)
+ {
+ int r1;
+ int r2;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(*x, 1);
+ r1 = READ_ONCE(*x);
+ r2 = READ_ONCE(*y);
+ }
+
+ P1(int *x, int *y)
+ {
+ int r3;
+ int r4;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(*y, 1);
+ r3 = READ_ONCE(*y);
+ r4 = READ_ONCE(*x);
+ }
+
+The next step is to construct a space-separated list of descriptors,
+interleaving descriptions of the relation between a pair of consecutive
+accesses with descriptions of the second access in the pair.
+
+P0()'s WRITE_ONCE() is read by its first READ_ONCE(), which is a
+reads-from link (rf) and internal to the P0() process. This is
+"rfi", which is an abbreviation for "reads-from internal". Because
+some of the tools string these abbreviations together with space
+characters separating processes, the first character is capitalized,
+resulting in "Rfi".
+
+P0()'s second access is a READ_ONCE(), as opposed to (for example)
+smp_load_acquire(), so next is "Once". Thus far, we have "Rfi Once".
+
+P0()'s third access is also a READ_ONCE(), but to y rather than x.
+This is related to P0()'s second access by program order ("po"),
+to a different variable ("d"), and both accesses are reads ("RR").
+The resulting descriptor is "PodRR". Because P0()'s third access is
+READ_ONCE(), we add another "Once" descriptor.
+
+A from-read ("fre") relation links P0()'s third to P1()'s first
+access, and the resulting descriptor is "Fre". P1()'s first access is
+WRITE_ONCE(), which as before gives the descriptor "Once". The string
+thus far is thus "Rfi Once PodRR Once Fre Once".
+
+The remainder of P1() is similar to P0(), which means we add
+"Rfi Once PodRR Once". Another fre links P1()'s last access to
+P0()'s first access, which is WRITE_ONCE(), so we add "Fre Once".
+The full string is thus:
+
+ Rfi Once PodRR Once Fre Once Rfi Once PodRR Once Fre Once
+
+This string can be given to the "norm7" and "classify7" tools to
+produce the name:
+
+ $ norm7 -bell linux-kernel.bell \
+ Rfi Once PodRR Once Fre Once Rfi Once PodRR Once Fre Once | \
+ sed -e 's/:.*//g'
+ SB+rfionceonce-poonceonces
+
+Adding the ".litmus" suffix: SB+rfionceonce-poonceonces.litmus
+
+The descriptors that describe connections between consecutive accesses
+within the cycle through a given litmus test can be provided by the herd7
+tool (Rfi, Po, Fre, and so on) or by the linux-kernel.bell file (Once,
+Release, Acquire, and so on).
+
+To see the full list of descriptors, execute the following command:
+
+ $ diyone7 -bell linux-kernel.bell -show edges