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Paul E. McKenney
ebb477cb2f tools/memory-model: Document categories of ordering primitives
The Linux kernel has a number of categories of ordering primitives, which
are recorded in the LKMM implementation and hinted at by cheatsheet.txt.
But there is no overview of these categories, and such an overview
is needed in order to understand multithreaded LKMM litmus tests.
This commit therefore adds an ordering.txt as well as extracting a
control-dependencies.txt from memory-barriers.txt.  It also updates the
README file.

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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-11-06 17:24:50 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
ab8bcad67b tools/memory-model: Move Documentation description to Documentation/README
This commit moves the descriptions of the files residing in
tools/memory-model/Documentation to a README file in that directory,
leaving behind the description of tools/memory-model/Documentation/README
itself.  After this change, tools/memory-model/Documentation/README
provides a guide to the files in the tools/memory-model/Documentation
directory, guiding people with different skills and needs to the most
appropriate starting point.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-10-26 16:18:53 -07:00