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diff --git a/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README b/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README index 6919909bbd0f..17eb9a8c222d 100644 --- a/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README +++ b/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/README @@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ IRIW+mbonceonces+OnceOnce.litmus 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? + 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 @@ -119,8 +120,10 @@ S+wmbonceonce+poacquireonce.litmus WRC+poonceonces+Once.litmus WRC+pooncerelease+rmbonceonce+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. + 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 |