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    rv/include: Add helper functions for deterministic automata · 09ecd8b8
    Daniel Bristot de Oliveira authored
    Formally, a deterministic automaton, denoted by G, is defined as a
    quintuple:
    
      G = { X, E, f, x_0, X_m }
    
    where:
    	- X is the set of states;
    	- E is the finite set of events;
    	- x_0 is the initial state;
    	- X_m (subset of X) is the set of marked states.
    	- f : X x E -> X $ is the transition function. It defines the
    	  state transition in the occurrence of a event from E in
    	  the state X. In the special case of deterministic automata,
    	  the occurrence of the event in E in a state in X has a
    	  deterministic next state from X.
    
    An automaton can also be represented using a graphical format of
    vertices (nodes) and edges. The open-source tool Graphviz can produce
    this graphic format using the (textual) DOT language as the source code.
    
    The dot2c tool presented in this paper:
    
    De Oliveira, Daniel Bristot; Cucinotta, Tommaso; De Oliveira, Romulo
    Silva. Efficient formal verification for the Linux kernel. In:
    International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods.
    Springer, Cham, 2019. p. 315-332.
    
    Translates a deterministic automaton in the DOT format into a C
    source code representation that to be used for monitoring.
    
    This header file implements helper functions to facilitate the usage
    of the C output from dot2c/k for monitoring.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/563234f2bfa84b540f60cf9e39c2d9f0eea95a55.1659052063.git.bristot@kernel.org
    
    Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>
    Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
    Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
    Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
    Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
    Cc: Gabriele Paoloni <gpaoloni@redhat.com>
    Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
    Cc: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
    Cc: Tao Zhou <tao.zhou@linux.dev>
    Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
    Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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