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+============
+LITMUS TESTS
+============
+
+Each subdirectory contains litmus tests that are typical to describe the
+semantics of respective kernel APIs.
+For more information about how to "run" a litmus test or how to generate
+a kernel test module based on a litmus test, please see
+tools/memory-model/README.
+
+
+atomic (/atomic directory)
+--------------------------
+
+Atomic-RMW+mb__after_atomic-is-stronger-than-acquire.litmus
+    Test that an atomic RMW followed by a smp_mb__after_atomic() is
+    stronger than a normal acquire: both the read and write parts of
+    the RMW are ordered before the subsequential memory accesses.
+
+Atomic-RMW-ops-are-atomic-WRT-atomic_set.litmus
+    Test that atomic_set() cannot break the atomicity of atomic RMWs.
+    NOTE: Require herd7 7.56 or later which supports "(void)expr".
+
+cmpxchg-fail-ordered-1.litmus
+    Demonstrate that a failing cmpxchg() operation acts as a full barrier
+    when followed by smp_mb__after_atomic().
+
+cmpxchg-fail-ordered-2.litmus
+    Demonstrate that a failing cmpxchg() operation acts as an acquire
+    operation when followed by smp_mb__after_atomic().
+
+cmpxchg-fail-unordered-1.litmus
+    Demonstrate that a failing cmpxchg() operation does not act as a
+    full barrier.
+
+cmpxchg-fail-unordered-2.litmus
+    Demonstrate that a failing cmpxchg() operation does not act as an
+    acquire operation.
+
+
+locking (/locking directory)
+----------------------------
+
+DCL-broken.litmus
+    Demonstrates that double-checked locking needs more than just
+    the obvious lock acquisitions and releases.
+
+DCL-fixed.litmus
+    Demonstrates corrected double-checked locking that uses
+    smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire() in addition to the
+    obvious lock acquisitions and releases.
+
+RM-broken.litmus
+    Demonstrates problems with "roach motel" locking, where code is
+    freely moved into lock-based critical sections.  This example also
+    shows how to use the "filter" clause to discard executions that
+    would be excluded by other code not modeled in the litmus test.
+    Note also that this "roach motel" optimization is emulated by
+    physically moving P1()'s two reads from x under the lock.
+
+    What is a roach motel?  This is from an old advertisement for
+    a cockroach trap, much later featured in one of the "Men in
+    Black" movies.  "The roaches check in.  They don't check out."
+
+RM-fixed.litmus
+    The counterpart to RM-broken.litmus, showing P0()'s two loads from
+    x safely outside of the critical section.
+
+
+RCU (/rcu directory)
+--------------------
+
+MP+onceassign+derefonce.litmus (under tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/)
+    Demonstrates the use of rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_dereference() to
+    ensure that an RCU reader will not see pre-initialization garbage.
+
+RCU+sync+read.litmus
+RCU+sync+free.litmus
+    Both the above litmus tests demonstrate the RCU grace period guarantee
+    that an RCU read-side critical section can never span a grace period.