1 // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
3 * Copyright (C) 2015 Jade Alglave <j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk>,
4 * Copyright (C) 2016 Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr> for Inria
5 * Copyright (C) 2017 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
6 * Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
8 * An earlier version of this file appeared in the companion webpage for
9 * "Frightening small children and disconcerting grown-ups: Concurrency
10 * in the Linux kernel" by Alglave, Maranget, McKenney, Parri, and Stern,
11 * which appeared in ASPLOS 2018.
14 "Linux-kernel memory consistency model"
17 * File "lock.cat" handles locks and is experimental.
18 * It can be replaced by include "cos.cat" for tests that do not use locks.
28 let rmb = [R \ Noreturn] ; fencerel(Rmb) ; [R \ Noreturn]
29 let wmb = [W] ; fencerel(Wmb) ; [W]
30 let mb = ([M] ; fencerel(Mb) ; [M]) |
31 ([M] ; fencerel(Before-atomic) ; [RMW] ; po? ; [M]) |
32 ([M] ; po? ; [RMW] ; fencerel(After-atomic) ; [M]) |
33 ([M] ; po? ; [LKW] ; fencerel(After-spinlock) ; [M])
34 let gp = po ; [Sync-rcu] ; po?
36 let strong-fence = mb | gp
39 let acq-po = [Acquire] ; po ; [M]
40 let po-rel = [M] ; po ; [Release]
41 let rfi-rel-acq = [Release] ; rfi ; [Acquire]
43 (**********************************)
44 (* Fundamental coherence ordering *)
45 (**********************************)
47 (* Sequential Consistency Per Variable *)
48 let com = rf | co | fr
49 acyclic po-loc | com as coherence
51 (* Atomic Read-Modify-Write *)
52 empty rmw & (fre ; coe) as atomic
54 (**********************************)
55 (* Instruction execution ordering *)
56 (**********************************)
58 (* Preserved Program Order *)
60 let rwdep = (dep | ctrl) ; [W]
61 let overwrite = co | fr
62 let to-w = rwdep | (overwrite & int)
63 let to-r = addr | (dep ; rfi) | rfi-rel-acq
64 let fence = strong-fence | wmb | po-rel | rmb | acq-po
65 let ppo = to-r | to-w | fence
67 (* Propagation: Ordering from release operations and strong fences. *)
68 let A-cumul(r) = rfe? ; r
69 let cumul-fence = A-cumul(strong-fence | po-rel) | wmb
70 let prop = (overwrite & ext)? ; cumul-fence* ; rfe?
73 * Happens Before: Ordering from the passage of time.
74 * No fences needed here for prop because relation confined to one process.
76 let hb = ppo | rfe | ((prop \ id) & int)
77 acyclic hb as happens-before
79 (****************************************)
80 (* Write and fence propagation ordering *)
81 (****************************************)
83 (* Propagation: Each non-rf link needs a strong fence. *)
84 let pb = prop ; strong-fence ; hb*
85 acyclic pb as propagation
92 * Effect of read-side critical section proceeds from the rcu_read_lock()
93 * onward on the one hand and from the rcu_read_unlock() backwards on the
96 let rscs = po ; crit^-1 ; po?
99 * The synchronize_rcu() strong fence is special in that it can order not
100 * one but two non-rf relations, but only in conjunction with an RCU
101 * read-side critical section.
103 let rcu-link = hb* ; pb* ; prop
106 * Any sequence containing at least as many grace periods as RCU read-side
107 * critical sections (joined by rcu-link) acts as a generalized strong fence.
109 let rec rcu-fence = gp |
110 (gp ; rcu-link ; rscs) |
111 (rscs ; rcu-link ; gp) |
112 (gp ; rcu-link ; rcu-fence ; rcu-link ; rscs) |
113 (rscs ; rcu-link ; rcu-fence ; rcu-link ; gp) |
114 (rcu-fence ; rcu-link ; rcu-fence)
116 (* rb orders instructions just as pb does *)
117 let rb = prop ; rcu-fence ; hb* ; pb*
119 irreflexive rb as rcu
122 * The happens-before, propagation, and rcu constraints are all
123 * expressions of temporal ordering. They could be replaced by
124 * a single constraint on an "executes-before" relation, xb:
126 * let xb = hb | pb | rb
127 * acyclic xb as executes-before