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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC tools/memory-model] Add litmus-test naming scheme
On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:30:50AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 12:10:20PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > This commit documents the scheme used to generate the names for the
> > litmus tests.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > README | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 135 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Whilst I think documentation like this is extremely important for users,
> this feels like it's documenting how to drive parts of diy and I'm not
> convinced that it belongs in the kernel source tree as long as the projects
> remain separate.
>
> Why not contribute this to the herdtools7 documentation, then just reference
> that from here? That would also be helpful for other people interested in
> memory models, but perhaps not interested in Linux (assuming such people
> exist ;).

We would still need at least a pointer from the Linux kernel to that
documentation, but I am happy either way. We probably need examples of
the common cases, but probably not a full exposition of all the available
herd7 edges.

Should this be in the herdtools7 documentation, or as added detail
from a variation on the "diyone7 -bell linux-kernel.bell -show edges"
command? If the latter, I suppose that the ones coming from the .bell
file might simply be labelled as such.

Thanx, Paul

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