Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:26:50 -0500 (EST) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/memory-model: clarify the origin/scope of the tool name |
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, 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>
For both patches:
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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