A recent discussion raises up the requirement for having test cases for atomic APIs: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200213085849.GL14897@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ , and since we already have a way to generate a test module from a litmus test with klitmus[1]. It makes sense that we add more litmus tests for atomic APIs. And based on the previous discussion, I create a new directory Documentation/atomic-tests and put these litmus tests here. This patchset starts the work by adding the litmus tests which are already used in atomic_t.txt, and also improve the atomic_t.txt to make it consistent with the litmus tests. Previous version: v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20200214040132.91934-1-boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx/ v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200219062627.104736-1-boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx/ v3: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20200227004049.6853-1-boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx/ Changes since v3: * Merge two patches on atomic-set litmus test into one as per Alan. (Alan, you have acked only one of the two patches, so I don't add you acked-by for the combined patch). * Move the atomic litmus tests into litmus-tests/atomic to align with Joel's recent patches on RCU litmus tests. I think we still haven't reach to a conclusion for the difference of atomic_add_unless() in herdtools, and I'm currently reading the source code of herd to resovle this. This is just an updated version to resolve ealier comments and react on Joel's RCU litmus tests. Regards, Boqun [1]: http://diy.inria.fr/doc/litmus.html#klitmus Boqun Feng (4): tools/memory-model: Add an exception for limitations on _unless() family Documentation/litmus-tests: Introduce atomic directory Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic: Add a test for atomic_set() Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic: Add a test for smp_mb__after_atomic() Documentation/atomic_t.txt | 24 +++++++------- ...ter_atomic-is-stronger-than-acquire.litmus | 32 +++++++++++++++++++ ...c-RMW-ops-are-atomic-WRT-atomic_set.litmus | 24 ++++++++++++++ Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README | 16 ++++++++++ tools/memory-model/README | 10 ++++-- 5 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/Atomic-RMW+mb__after_atomic-is-stronger-than-acquire.litmus create mode 100644 Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/Atomic-RMW-ops-are-atomic-WRT-atomic_set.litmus create mode 100644 Documentation/litmus-tests/atomic/README -- 2.25.1