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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/2] tools/memory-model: clarify the origin/scope of the tool name
On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 01:03:29PM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote:
> Ingo pointed out that:
>
> "The "memory model" name is overly generic, ambiguous and somewhat
> misleading, as we usually mean the virtual memory layout/model
> when we say "memory model". GCC too uses it in that sense [...]"
>
> Make it clearer that, in the context of tools/memory-model/, the term
> "memory-model" is used as shorthand for "memory consistency model" by
> calling out this convention in tools/memory-model/README.
>
> Stick to the full name in sources' headers and for the subsystem name.
>
> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
> ---
> tools/memory-model/MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> tools/memory-model/README | 14 +++++++-------
> tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell | 2 +-
> tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Will

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