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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
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
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/devel')
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/atomics.txt2
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/kconfig.rst2
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/loads-stores.rst2
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/multi-thread-tcg.txt8
-rw-r--r--docs/devel/tcg.rst2
5 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/docs/devel/atomics.txt b/docs/devel/atomics.txt
index a4db3a4aaa..67bdf82628 100644
--- a/docs/devel/atomics.txt
+++ b/docs/devel/atomics.txt
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Sequentially consistent loads and stores can be done using:
atomic_xchg(ptr, val) for stores
However, they are quite expensive on some platforms, notably POWER and
-ARM. Therefore, qemu/atomic.h provides two primitives with slightly
+Arm. Therefore, qemu/atomic.h provides two primitives with slightly
weaker constraints:
typeof(*ptr) atomic_mb_read(ptr)
diff --git a/docs/devel/kconfig.rst b/docs/devel/kconfig.rst
index b7bca44704..e5df72b342 100644
--- a/docs/devel/kconfig.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/kconfig.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ time different targets can share large amounts of code. For example,
a POWER and an x86 board can run the same code to emulate a PCI network
card, even though the boards use different PCI host bridges, and they
can run the same code to emulate a SCSI disk while using different
-SCSI adapters. ARM, s390 and x86 boards can all present a virtio-blk
+SCSI adapters. Arm, s390 and x86 boards can all present a virtio-blk
disk to their guests, but with three different virtio guest interfaces.
Each QEMU target enables a subset of the boards, devices and buses that
diff --git a/docs/devel/loads-stores.rst b/docs/devel/loads-stores.rst
index 03aa9e7ff8..0d99eb24c1 100644
--- a/docs/devel/loads-stores.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/loads-stores.rst
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ way QEMU defines the view of memory that a device or CPU has.
or bus fabric.)
Each CPU has an AddressSpace. Some kinds of CPU have more than
-one AddressSpace (for instance ARM guest CPUs have an AddressSpace
+one AddressSpace (for instance Arm guest CPUs have an AddressSpace
for the Secure world and one for NonSecure if they implement TrustZone).
Devices which can do DMA-type operations should generally have an
AddressSpace. There is also a "system address space" which typically
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.
diff --git a/docs/devel/tcg.rst b/docs/devel/tcg.rst
index 4956a30a4e..4ebde44b9d 100644
--- a/docs/devel/tcg.rst
+++ b/docs/devel/tcg.rst
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ memory until the end of the translation block. This is done for internal
emulation state that is rarely accessed directly by the program and/or changes
very often throughout the execution of a translation block---this includes
condition codes on x86, delay slots on SPARC, conditional execution on
-ARM, and so on. This state is stored for each target instruction, and
+Arm, and so on. This state is stored for each target instruction, and
looked up on exceptions.
MMU emulation