This commit documents the scheme used to generate the names for the
litmus tests.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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-This directory contains the following litmus tests:
+============
+LITMUS TESTS
+============
CoRR+poonceonce+Once.litmus
Test of read-read coherence, that is, whether or not two
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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 finite-length 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 | classify7 -bell linux-kernel.bell -diyone | sed -e 's/:.*//g'
+SB+rfionceonce-poonceonces
+
+Adding the ".litmus" suffix: SB+rfionceonce-poonceonces.litmus
+
+
+=======================
+LITMUS TEST DESCRIPTORS
+=======================
+
+These descriptors cover connections between consecutive accesses:
+
+Fre: From-read external. The current process wrote a variable that
+ the previous process read. Example: The SB (store buffering) test.
+Fri: From-read internal. This process read a variable and then
+ immediately wrote to it. Example: ???
+PodRR: Program-order different variable, read followed by read.
+ This process read a variable and again read a different variable.
+ Example: The read-side process in the MP (message-passing) test.
+PodRW: Program-order different variable, read followed by write.
+ This process read a variable and then wrote a different variable.
+ Example: The LB (load buffering) test.
+PodWR: Program-order different variable, write followed by read.
+ This process wrote a variable and then read a different variable.
+ Example: The SB (store buffering) test.
+PodWW: Program-order different variable, write followed by write.
+ This process wrote a variable and again wrote a different variable.
+ Example: The write-side process in the MP (message-passing) test.
+PosRR: Program-order same variable, read followed by read.
+ This process read a variable and again read that same variable.
+ Example: ???
+PosRW: Program-order same variable, read followed by write.
+ This process read a variable and then wrote that same variable.
+ Example: ???
+PosWR: Program-order same variable, write followed by read.
+ This process wrote a variable and then read that same variable.
+ Example: ???
+PosWW: Program-order same variable, write followed by write.
+ This process wrote a variable and again rrote that same variable.
+ Example: ???
+Rfe: Read-from external. The current process read a variable written
+ by the previous process. Example: The MP (message passing) test.
+Rfi: Read-from internal. The current process wrote a variable and then
+ immediately read the value back from it. Example: ???
+ Comparison to PosWR???
+Wse: Write same external. The current process wrote to a variable that
+ was also written to by the previous process. Example: ???
+Wsi: Write same internal. The current process wrote to a variable and
+ then immediately wrote to it again. Example: ???
