From: "Szőke Benjamin" <egyszeregy@freemail.hu>
To: paulmck@kernel.org, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com, will@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org,
boqun.feng@gmail.com, npiggin@gmail.com, dhowells@redhat.com,
j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk, luc.maranget@inria.fr, akiyks@gmail.com,
dlustig@nvidia.com, joel@joelfernandes.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
lkmm@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Fix litmus-tests's file names for case-insensitive filesystem.
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:09:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c46da2b3-bb86-4385-bffb-2edea61d79d0@freemail.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e3a5aa0a-2c8b-4679-9344-64135df63fe1@paulmck-laptop>
2024. 11. 12. 22:53 keltezéssel, Paul E. McKenney írta:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 03:20:00PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 10:26:37AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>>> We do have a rule for the filenames in that directory that most of
>>> them follow (I am looking at *you*, "dep+plain.litmus"!). So we have
>>> a few options:
>>>
>>> 1. Status quo. (How boring!!!)
>>>
>>> 2. Come up with a better rule mapping the litmus-test file
>>> contents to the filename, and rename things to follow that rule.
>>> (Holy bikeshedding, Batman!)
>>>
>>> 3. Keep it simple and keep the current rule, but make the
>>> combination of spin_lock() and smp_mb__after_spinlock()
>>> have a greater Hamming distance from "lock". Szőke's
>>> patch changed only one of the filenames containing "Lock".
>>> (Bikeshedding, but narrower scope.)
>>>
>>> 4. One of the above, but bring the litmus tests not following
>>> the rule into compliance.
>>>
>>> 5. Give up on the idea of the name reflecting the contents of the
>>> file, and just number them or something. (More bikeshedding
>>> and a different form of confusion.)
>>>
>>> 6. #5, but accompanied by some tool or script that allows easy
>>> searching of the litmus tests by pattern of interaction.
>>> (Easy for *me* to say!)
>>>
>>> 7. Something else entirely.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thumbs up for 3.
>
> Very good! Any nominations for the lucky replacement for "Lock"?
>
> Thanx, Paul
Subject: [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Fix litmus-tests's file names.
Makes a greater Hamming distance for name of Z6.0+pooncelock* files.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241209150044.766-1-egyszeregy@freemail.hu/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-12-12 23:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-11-11 16:42 [PATCH] tools/memory-model: Fix litmus-tests's file names for case-insensitive filesystem egyszeregy
2024-11-11 16:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-11-11 18:52 ` Szőke Benjamin
2024-11-11 19:22 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-11-11 19:56 ` Szőke Benjamin
2024-11-11 20:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-11-11 21:15 ` Szőke Benjamin
2024-11-11 21:23 ` Boqun Feng
2024-11-11 21:39 ` Szőke Benjamin
2024-11-11 21:44 ` Boqun Feng
2024-11-11 21:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-11-11 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2024-11-11 23:21 ` Szőke Benjamin
2024-11-12 1:02 ` Boqun Feng
2024-11-12 10:06 ` Szőke Benjamin
2024-11-12 16:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-11-12 16:56 ` Boqun Feng
2024-11-12 0:59 ` Alan Stern
2024-11-12 4:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-11-12 15:35 ` Alan Stern
2024-11-12 18:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-11-12 20:20 ` Alan Stern
2024-11-12 21:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-12-12 23:09 ` Szőke Benjamin [this message]
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