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We already use a litmus test in atomic_t.txt to describe the behavior of an atomic_set() with the an atomic RMW, so add it into atomic-tests directory to make it easily accessible for anyone who cares about the semantics of our atomic APIs. Besides currently the litmus test "atomic-set" in atomic_t.txt has a few things to be improved: 1) The CPU/Processor numbers "P1,P2" are not only inconsistent with the rest of the document, which uses "CPU0" and "CPU1", but also unacceptable by the herd tool, which requires processors start at "P0". 2) The initialization block uses a "atomic_set()", which is OK, but it's better to use ATOMIC_INIT() to make clear this is an initialization. 3) The return value of atomic_add_unless() is discarded inexplicitly, which is OK for C language, but it will be helpful to the herd tool if we use a void cast to make the discard explicit. 4) The name and the paragraph describing the test need to be more accurate and aligned with our wording in LKMM. Therefore fix these in both atomic_t.txt and the new added litmus test. Acked-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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