These primitives are often used to implement higher-level abstractions, packaged into persistent libraries, i.e. collections of data structures that must guarantee to preserve their contents after a power failure.
这篇文章对可线性化和持久可线性化的介绍比较值得一看，参见汇报ppt。剩下的部分个人认为写得比较差劲，理解起来很困难，符号也滥用。