tools/memory-model: Tie acquire loads to reads-from
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.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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@ -33,10 +33,11 @@ Acquire: With respect to a lock, acquiring that lock, for example,
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acquire loads.
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When an acquire load returns the value stored by a release store
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to that same variable, then all operations preceding that store
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happen before any operations following that load acquire.
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to that same variable, (in other words, the acquire load "reads
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from" the release store), then all operations preceding that
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store "happen before" any operations following that load acquire.
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See also "Relaxed" and "Release".
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See also "Happens-Before", "Reads-From", "Relaxed", and "Release".
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Coherence (co): When one CPU's store to a given variable overwrites
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either the value from another CPU's store or some later value,
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@ -119,6 +120,11 @@ Fully Ordered: An operation such as smp_mb() that orders all of
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that orders all of its CPU's prior accesses, itself, and
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all of its CPU's subsequent accesses.
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Happens-Before (hb): A relation between two accesses in which LKMM
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guarantees the first access precedes the second. For more
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detail, please see the "THE HAPPENS-BEFORE RELATION: hb"
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section of explanation.txt.
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Marked Access: An access to a variable that uses an special function or
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macro such as "r1 = READ_ONCE(x)" or "smp_store_release(&a, 1)".
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