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tools/memory-model: Clarify the origin/scope of the tool name

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Ingo pointed out that:

  "The "memory model" name is overly generic, ambiguous and somewhat
   misleading, as we usually mean the virtual memory layout/model
   when we say "memory model". GCC too uses it in that sense [...]"

Make it clear that tools/memory-model/ uses the term "memory model" as
shorthand for "memory consistency model" by calling out this convention
in tools/memory-model/README.

Stick to the original "memory model" term in sources' headers and for
the subsystem name.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akiyks@gmail.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: j.alglave@ucl.ac.uk
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: luc.maranget@inria.fr
Cc: nborisov@suse.com
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519169112-20593-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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LINUX KERNEL MEMORY MODEL
LINUX KERNEL MEMORY CONSISTENCY MODEL
M: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
M: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
M: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

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=========================
LINUX KERNEL MEMORY MODEL
=========================
=====================================
LINUX KERNEL MEMORY CONSISTENCY MODEL
=====================================
============
INTRODUCTION
============
This directory contains the memory model of the Linux kernel, written
in the "cat" language and executable by the (externally provided)
"herd7" simulator, which exhaustively explores the state space of
small litmus tests.
This directory contains the memory consistency model (memory model, for
short) of the Linux kernel, written in the "cat" language and executable
by the externally provided "herd7" simulator, which exhaustively explores
the state space of small litmus tests.
In addition, the "klitmus7" tool (also externally provided) may be used
to convert a litmus test to a Linux kernel module, which in turn allows

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* which is to appear in ASPLOS 2018.
*)
"Linux kernel memory model"
"Linux-kernel memory consistency model"
enum Accesses = 'once (*READ_ONCE,WRITE_ONCE,ACCESS_ONCE*) ||
'release (*smp_store_release*) ||

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* which is to appear in ASPLOS 2018.
*)
"Linux kernel memory model"
"Linux-kernel memory consistency model"
(*
* File "lock.cat" handles locks and is experimental.