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tools/memory-model: Add a S lock-based external-view litmus test

This commit adds a litmus test in which P0() and P1() form a lock-based S
litmus test, with the addition of P2(), which observes P0()'s and P1()'s
accesses with a full memory barrier but without the lock. This litmus
test asks whether writes carried out by two different processes under the
same lock will be seen in order by a third process not holding that lock.
The answer to this question is "yes" for all architectures supporting
the Linux kernel, but is "no" according to the current version of LKMM.

A patch to LKMM is under development.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: nborisov@suse.com
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519169112-20593-10-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus
··· 1 + C ISA2+pooncelock+pooncelock+pombonce.litmus 2 + 3 + (* 4 + * Result: Sometimes 5 + * 6 + * This test shows that the ordering provided by a lock-protected S 7 + * litmus test (P0() and P1()) are not visible to external process P2(). 8 + * This is likely to change soon. 9 + *) 10 + 11 + {} 12 + 13 + P0(int *x, int *y, spinlock_t *mylock) 14 + { 15 + spin_lock(mylock); 16 + WRITE_ONCE(*x, 1); 17 + WRITE_ONCE(*y, 1); 18 + spin_unlock(mylock); 19 + } 20 + 21 + P1(int *y, int *z, spinlock_t *mylock) 22 + { 23 + int r0; 24 + 25 + spin_lock(mylock); 26 + r0 = READ_ONCE(*y); 27 + WRITE_ONCE(*z, 1); 28 + spin_unlock(mylock); 29 + } 30 + 31 + P2(int *x, int *z) 32 + { 33 + int r1; 34 + int r2; 35 + 36 + r2 = READ_ONCE(*z); 37 + smp_mb(); 38 + r1 = READ_ONCE(*x); 39 + } 40 + 41 + exists (1:r0=1 /\ 2:r2=1 /\ 2:r1=0)