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1// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
2(*
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>
7 *
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.
12 *)
13
14"Linux-kernel memory consistency model"
15
16(*
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.
19 *)
20
21include "lock.cat"
22
23(*******************)
24(* Basic relations *)
25(*******************)
26
27(* Release Acquire *)
28let acq-po = [Acquire] ; po ; [M]
29let po-rel = [M] ; po ; [Release]
30let po-unlock-lock-po = po ; [UL] ; (po|rf) ; [LKR] ; po
31
32(* Fences *)
33let R4rmb = R \ Noreturn	(* Reads for which rmb works *)
34let rmb = [R4rmb] ; fencerel(Rmb) ; [R4rmb]
35let wmb = [W] ; fencerel(Wmb) ; [W]
36let mb = ([M] ; fencerel(Mb) ; [M]) |
37	(*
38	 * full-barrier RMWs (successful cmpxchg(), xchg(), etc.) act as
39	 * though there were enclosed by smp_mb().
40	 * The effect of these virtual smp_mb() is formalized by adding
41	 * Mb tags to the read and write of the operation, and providing
42	 * the same ordering as though there were additional po edges
43	 * between the Mb tag and the read resp. write.
44	 *)
45	([M] ; po ; [Mb & R]) |
46	([Mb & W] ; po ; [M]) |
47	([M] ; fencerel(Before-atomic) ; [RMW] ; po? ; [M]) |
48	([M] ; po? ; [RMW] ; fencerel(After-atomic) ; [M]) |
49	([M] ; po? ; [LKW] ; fencerel(After-spinlock) ; [M]) |
50(*
51 * Note: The po-unlock-lock-po relation only passes the lock to the direct
52 * successor, perhaps giving the impression that the ordering of the
53 * smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() fence only affects a single lock handover.
54 * However, in a longer sequence of lock handovers, the implicit
55 * A-cumulative release fences of lock-release ensure that any stores that
56 * propagate to one of the involved CPUs before it hands over the lock to
57 * the next CPU will also propagate to the final CPU handing over the lock
58 * to the CPU that executes the fence.  Therefore, all those stores are
59 * also affected by the fence.
60 *)
61	([M] ; po-unlock-lock-po ;
62		[After-unlock-lock] ; po ; [M]) |
63	([M] ; po? ; [Srcu-unlock] ; fencerel(After-srcu-read-unlock) ; [M])
64let gp = po ; [Sync-rcu | Sync-srcu] ; po?
65let strong-fence = mb | gp
66
67let nonrw-fence = strong-fence | po-rel | acq-po
68let fence = nonrw-fence | wmb | rmb
69let barrier = fencerel(Barrier | Rmb | Wmb | Mb | Sync-rcu | Sync-srcu |
70		Before-atomic | After-atomic | Acquire | Release |
71		Rcu-lock | Rcu-unlock | Srcu-lock | Srcu-unlock) |
72	(po ; [Release]) | ([Acquire] ; po)
73
74(**********************************)
75(* Fundamental coherence ordering *)
76(**********************************)
77
78(* Sequential Consistency Per Variable *)
79let com = rf | co | fr
80acyclic po-loc | com as coherence
81
82(* Atomic Read-Modify-Write *)
83empty rmw & (fre ; coe) as atomic
84
85(**********************************)
86(* Instruction execution ordering *)
87(**********************************)
88
89(* Preserved Program Order *)
90let dep = addr | data
91let rwdep = (dep | ctrl) ; [W]
92let overwrite = co | fr
93let to-w = rwdep | (overwrite & int) | (addr ; [Plain] ; wmb)
94let to-r = (addr ; [R]) | (dep ; [Marked] ; rfi)
95let ppo = to-r | to-w | (fence & int) | (po-unlock-lock-po & int)
96
97(* Propagation: Ordering from release operations and strong fences. *)
98let A-cumul(r) = (rfe ; [Marked])? ; r
99let rmw-sequence = (rf ; rmw)*
100let cumul-fence = [Marked] ; (A-cumul(strong-fence | po-rel) | wmb |
101	po-unlock-lock-po) ; [Marked] ; rmw-sequence
102let prop = [Marked] ; (overwrite & ext)? ; cumul-fence* ;
103	[Marked] ; rfe? ; [Marked]
104
105(*
106 * Happens Before: Ordering from the passage of time.
107 * No fences needed here for prop because relation confined to one process.
108 *)
109let hb = [Marked] ; (ppo | rfe | ((prop \ id) & int)) ; [Marked]
110acyclic hb as happens-before
111
112(****************************************)
113(* Write and fence propagation ordering *)
114(****************************************)
115
116(* Propagation: Each non-rf link needs a strong fence. *)
117let pb = prop ; strong-fence ; hb* ; [Marked]
118acyclic pb as propagation
119
120(*******)
121(* RCU *)
122(*******)
123
124(*
125 * Effects of read-side critical sections proceed from the rcu_read_unlock()
126 * or srcu_read_unlock() backwards on the one hand, and from the
127 * rcu_read_lock() or srcu_read_lock() forwards on the other hand.
128 *
129 * In the definition of rcu-fence below, the po term at the left-hand side
130 * of each disjunct and the po? term at the right-hand end have been factored
131 * out.  They have been moved into the definitions of rcu-link and rb.
132 * This was necessary in order to apply the "& loc" tests correctly.
133 *)
134let rcu-gp = [Sync-rcu]		(* Compare with gp *)
135let srcu-gp = [Sync-srcu]
136let rcu-rscsi = rcu-rscs^-1
137let srcu-rscsi = srcu-rscs^-1
138
139(*
140 * The synchronize_rcu() strong fence is special in that it can order not
141 * one but two non-rf relations, but only in conjunction with an RCU
142 * read-side critical section.
143 *)
144let rcu-link = po? ; hb* ; pb* ; prop ; po
145
146(*
147 * Any sequence containing at least as many grace periods as RCU read-side
148 * critical sections (joined by rcu-link) induces order like a generalized
149 * inter-CPU strong fence.
150 * Likewise for SRCU grace periods and read-side critical sections, provided
151 * the synchronize_srcu() and srcu_read_[un]lock() calls refer to the same
152 * struct srcu_struct location.
153 *)
154let rec rcu-order = rcu-gp | srcu-gp |
155	(rcu-gp ; rcu-link ; rcu-rscsi) |
156	((srcu-gp ; rcu-link ; srcu-rscsi) & loc) |
157	(rcu-rscsi ; rcu-link ; rcu-gp) |
158	((srcu-rscsi ; rcu-link ; srcu-gp) & loc) |
159	(rcu-gp ; rcu-link ; rcu-order ; rcu-link ; rcu-rscsi) |
160	((srcu-gp ; rcu-link ; rcu-order ; rcu-link ; srcu-rscsi) & loc) |
161	(rcu-rscsi ; rcu-link ; rcu-order ; rcu-link ; rcu-gp) |
162	((srcu-rscsi ; rcu-link ; rcu-order ; rcu-link ; srcu-gp) & loc) |
163	(rcu-order ; rcu-link ; rcu-order)
164let rcu-fence = po ; rcu-order ; po?
165let fence = fence | rcu-fence
166let strong-fence = strong-fence | rcu-fence
167
168(* rb orders instructions just as pb does *)
169let rb = prop ; rcu-fence ; hb* ; pb* ; [Marked]
170
171irreflexive rb as rcu
172
173(*
174 * The happens-before, propagation, and rcu constraints are all
175 * expressions of temporal ordering.  They could be replaced by
176 * a single constraint on an "executes-before" relation, xb:
177 *
178 * let xb = hb | pb | rb
179 * acyclic xb as executes-before
180 *)
181
182(*********************************)
183(* Plain accesses and data races *)
184(*********************************)
185
186(* Warn about plain writes and marked accesses in the same region *)
187let mixed-accesses = ([Plain & W] ; (po-loc \ barrier) ; [Marked]) |
188	([Marked] ; (po-loc \ barrier) ; [Plain & W])
189flag ~empty mixed-accesses as mixed-accesses
190
191(* Executes-before and visibility *)
192let xbstar = (hb | pb | rb)*
193let vis = cumul-fence* ; rfe? ; [Marked] ;
194	((strong-fence ; [Marked] ; xbstar) | (xbstar & int))
195
196(* Boundaries for lifetimes of plain accesses *)
197let w-pre-bounded = [Marked] ; (addr | fence)?
198let r-pre-bounded = [Marked] ; (addr | nonrw-fence |
199	([R4rmb] ; fencerel(Rmb) ; [~Noreturn]))?
200let w-post-bounded = fence? ; [Marked] ; rmw-sequence
201let r-post-bounded = (nonrw-fence | ([~Noreturn] ; fencerel(Rmb) ; [R4rmb]))? ;
202	[Marked]
203
204(* Visibility and executes-before for plain accesses *)
205let ww-vis = fence | (strong-fence ; xbstar ; w-pre-bounded) |
206	(w-post-bounded ; vis ; w-pre-bounded)
207let wr-vis = fence | (strong-fence ; xbstar ; r-pre-bounded) |
208	(w-post-bounded ; vis ; r-pre-bounded)
209let rw-xbstar = fence | (r-post-bounded ; xbstar ; w-pre-bounded)
210
211(* Potential races *)
212let pre-race = ext & ((Plain * M) | ((M \ IW) * Plain))
213
214(* Coherence requirements for plain accesses *)
215let wr-incoh = pre-race & rf & rw-xbstar^-1
216let rw-incoh = pre-race & fr & wr-vis^-1
217let ww-incoh = pre-race & co & ww-vis^-1
218empty (wr-incoh | rw-incoh | ww-incoh) as plain-coherence
219
220(* Actual races *)
221let ww-nonrace = ww-vis & ((Marked * W) | rw-xbstar) & ((W * Marked) | wr-vis)
222let ww-race = (pre-race & co) \ ww-nonrace
223let wr-race = (pre-race & (co? ; rf)) \ wr-vis \ rw-xbstar^-1
224let rw-race = (pre-race & fr) \ rw-xbstar
225
226flag ~empty (ww-race | wr-race | rw-race) as data-race
227