From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@kernel.org>
This commit explicitly makes the connection between acquire loads and
the reads-from relation. It also adds an entry for happens-before,
and refers to the corresponding section of explanation.txt.
Reported-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.f...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@kernel.org>
---
tools/memory-model/Documentation/glossary.txt | 12 +++++++++---
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/glossary.txt
b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/glossary.txt
index 79acb75..b2da636 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/Documentation/glossary.txt
+++ b/tools/memory-model/Documentation/glossary.txt
@@ -33,10 +33,11 @@ Acquire: With respect to a lock, acquiring that lock, for
example,
acquire loads.
When an acquire load returns the value stored by a release store
- to that same variable, then all operations preceding that store
- happen before any operations following that load acquire.
+ to that same variable, (in other words, the acquire load "reads
+ from" the release store), then all operations preceding that
+ store "happen before" any operations following that load acquire.
- See also "Relaxed" and "Release".
+ See also "Happens-Before", "Reads-From", "Relaxed", and "Release".
Coherence (co): When one CPU's store to a given variable overwrites
either the value from another CPU's store or some later value,
@@ -119,6 +120,11 @@ Fully Ordered: An operation such as smp_mb() that orders
all of
that orders all of its CPU's prior accesses, itself, and
all of its CPU's subsequent accesses.
+Happens-Before (hb): A relation between two accesses in which LKMM
+ guarantees the first access precedes the second. For more
+ detail, please see the "THE HAPPENS-BEFORE RELATION: hb"
+ section of explanation.txt.
+
Marked Access: An access to a variable that uses an special function or
macro such as "r1 = READ_ONCE(x)" or "smp_store_release(&a, 1)".
--
2.9.5
