Commit-ID:  35bb6ee6790600d29c598ebbf262359341f34e38
Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/35bb6ee6790600d29c598ebbf262359341f34e38
Author:     Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Mon, 14 May 2018 16:33:43 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Tue, 15 May 2018 08:11:16 +0200

tools/memory-order: Improve key for SELF and SV

The key for "SELF" was missing completely and the key for "SV" was
a bit obtuse.  This commit therefore adds a key for "SELF" and improves
the one for "SV".

Reported-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt 
b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt
index c0eafdaddfa4..46fe79afc737 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt
+++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/cheatsheet.txt
@@ -26,4 +26,5 @@ Key:  C:      Ordering is cumulative
        DR:     Dependent read (address dependency)
        DW:     Dependent write (address, data, or control dependency)
        RMW:    Atomic read-modify-write operation
-       SV      Same-variable access
+       SELF:   Orders self, as opposed to accesses before and/or after
+       SV:     Orders later accesses to the same variable

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