This patch adds several new tunables to control the behavior of
elision on supported platforms[1]. Since elision now depends
on tunables, we should always *compile* with elision enabled,
and leave the code disabled, but available for runtime
selection. This gives us *much* better compile-time testing of
the existing code to avoid bit-rot[2].
Tested on ppc, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x and x86_64.
[1] This part of the patch was initially proposed by
Paul Murphy but was "staled" because the framework have changed
since the patch was originally proposed:
https://patchwork.sourceware.org/patch/10342/
[2] This part of the patch was inititally proposed as a RFC by
Carlos O'Donnell. Make sense to me integrate this on the patch:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00335.html
* elf/dl-tunables.list: Add elision parameters.
* manual/tunables.texi: Add entries about elision tunable.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-conf.c:
Add callback functions to dynamically enable/disable elision.
Add multiple callbacks functions to set elision parameters.
Deleted __libc_enable_secure check.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/elision-conf.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/elision-conf.c: Likewise.
* configure: Regenerated.
* configure.ac: Option enable_lock_elision was deleted.
* config.h.in: ENABLE_LOCK_ELISION flag was deleted.
* config.make.in: Remove references to enable_lock_elision.
* manual/install.texi: Elision configure option was removed.
* INSTALL: Regenerated to remove enable_lock_elision.
* nptl/Makefile:
Disable elision so it can verify error case for destroying a mutex.
* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/elide.h:
Cleanup ENABLE_LOCK_ELISION check.
Deleted macros for the case when ENABLE_LOCK_ELISION was not defined.
* sysdeps/s390/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/s390/configure.ac: Remove references to enable_lock_elision..
* nptl/tst-mutex8.c:
Deleted all #ifndef ENABLE_LOCK_ELISION from the test.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h:
Deleted all ENABLE_LOCK_ELISION checks.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/sysdep.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/s390/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/force-elision.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/elision-conf.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/force-elision.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/lowlevellock.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/Makefile: Remove references to
enable-lock-elision.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Work around a GCC behavior with hardware transactional memory built-ins.
GCC doesn't treat the PowerPC transactional built-ins as compiler
barriers, moving instructions past the transaction boundaries and
altering their atomicity.
The skip_lock_out_of_tbegin_retries adaptive parameter was
not being used correctly, nor as described. This prevents
a fallback for all users of the lock if a transient abort
occurs within the accepted number of retries.
[BZ #19174]
* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/elide.h (__elide_lock): Fix usage of
.skip_lock_out_of_tbegin_retries.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-lock.c
(__lll_lock_elision): Likewise, and respect a value of
try_tbegin <= 0.
The previous code used to evaluate the preprocessor token is_lock_free to
a variable before starting a transaction. This behavior can cause an
error if another thread got the lock (without using a transaction)
between the evaluation of the token and the beginning of the transaction.
This bug can be triggered with the following order of events:
1. The lock accessed by is_lock_free is free.
2. Thread T1 evaluates is_lock_free and stores into register R1 that the
lock is free.
3. Thread T2 acquires the same lock used in is_lock_free.
4. T1 begins the transaction, creating a memory barrier where is_lock_free
is false, but R1 is true.
5. T1 reads R1 and doesn't abort the transaction.
6. T1 calls ELIDE_UNLOCK, which reads false from is_lock_free and decides
to unlock a lock acquired by T2, leading to undefined behavior.
This patch delays the evaluation of is_lock_free to inside a transaction
by moving this part of the code to the macro ELIDE_LOCK.
[BZ #18743]
* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/elide.h (__elide_lock): Move most of this
code to...
(ELIDE_LOCK): ...here.
(__get_new_count): New function with part of the code from
__elide_lock that updates the value of adapt_count after a
transaction abort.
(__elided_trylock): Moved this code to...
(ELIDE_TRYLOCK): ...here.
This patch adds support for lock elision using ISA 2.07 hardware
transactional memory for rwlocks. The logic is similar to the
one presented in pthread_mutex lock elision.
