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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2020-03-09 21:58:18 +0000
committerPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2020-03-12 11:20:20 +0000
commit6fe6d6c9a953901251e1a85088f0a61ff5caf648 (patch)
tree1a6fd6d7c792d6bcebe4313d1795f3b4c4eac047 /docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.txt
parent34f18ab14d7197d13d7e93300e3b9a3853c7efc8 (diff)
docs: Be consistent about capitalization of 'Arm'
The company 'Arm' went through a rebranding some years back involving a recapitalization from 'ARM' to 'Arm'. As a result our documentation is a bit inconsistent between the two forms. It's not worth trying to update everywhere in QEMU, but it's easy enough to make docs/ consistent. Note that "ARMv8" and similar architecture names, and older CPU names like "ARM926" still retain all-caps. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Niek Linnenbank <nieklinnenbank@gmail.com> Message-id: 20200309215818.2021-6-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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diff --git a/docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.txt b/docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.txt
index 782bebc28b..3c85ac0eab 100644
--- a/docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.txt
+++ b/docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.txt
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ minimise contention.
(Current solution)
MMIO access automatically serialises hardware emulation by way of the
-BQL. Currently ARM targets serialise all ARM_CP_IO register accesses
+BQL. Currently Arm targets serialise all ARM_CP_IO register accesses
and also defer the reset/startup of vCPUs to the vCPU context by way
of async_run_on_cpu().
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ ordered backends this could become a NOP.
Aside from explicit standalone memory barrier instructions there are
also implicit memory ordering semantics which comes with each guest
memory access instruction. For example all x86 load/stores come with
-fairly strong guarantees of sequential consistency where as ARM has
+fairly strong guarantees of sequential consistency whereas Arm has
special variants of load/store instructions that imply acquire/release
semantics.
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ x86 cmpxchg instruction.
The second type offer a pair of load/store instructions which offer a
guarantee that a region of memory has not been touched between the
-load and store instructions. An example of this is ARM's ldrex/strex
+load and store instructions. An example of this is Arm's ldrex/strex
pair where the strex instruction will return a flag indicating a
successful store only if no other CPU has accessed the memory region
since the ldrex.
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ CURRENT OPEN QUESTIONS:
The TCG provides a number of atomic helpers (tcg_gen_atomic_*) which
can be used directly or combined to emulate other instructions like
-ARM's ldrex/strex instructions. While they are susceptible to the ABA
+Arm's ldrex/strex instructions. While they are susceptible to the ABA
problem so far common guests have not implemented patterns where
this may be a problem - typically presenting a locking ABI which
assumes cmpxchg like semantics.