2016-01-16 Torvald Riegel * method-gl.cc (gl_wt_dispatch::trycommit): Ensure proxy privatization safety. * method-ml.cc (ml_wt_dispatch::trycommit): Likewise. * libitm/testsuite/libitm.c/priv-1.c: New. --- libitm/method-gl.cc +++ libitm/method-gl.cc @@ -291,12 +291,18 @@ public: // See begin_or_restart() for why we need release memory order here. v = gl_mg::clear_locked(v) + 1; o_gl_mg.orec.store(v, memory_order_release); - - // Need to ensure privatization safety. Every other transaction must - // have a snapshot time that is at least as high as our commit time - // (i.e., our commit must be visible to them). - priv_time = v; } + + // Need to ensure privatization safety. Every other transaction must have + // a snapshot time that is at least as high as our commit time (i.e., our + // commit must be visible to them). Because of proxy privatization, we + // must ensure that even if we are a read-only transaction. See + // ml_wt_dispatch::trycommit() for details: We can't get quite the same + // set of problems because we just use one orec and thus, for example, + // there cannot be concurrent writers -- but we can still get pending + // loads to privatized data when not ensuring privatization safety, which + // is problematic if the program unmaps the privatized memory. + priv_time = v; return true; } --- libitm/method-ml.cc +++ libitm/method-ml.cc @@ -513,6 +513,21 @@ public: if (!tx->writelog.size()) { tx->readlog.clear(); + // We still need to ensure privatization safety, unfortunately. While + // we cannot have privatized anything by ourselves (because we are not + // an update transaction), we can have observed the commits of + // another update transaction that privatized something. Because any + // commit happens before ensuring privatization, our snapshot and + // commit can thus have happened before ensuring privatization safety + // for this commit/snapshot time. Therefore, before we can return to + // nontransactional code that might use the privatized data, we must + // ensure privatization safety for our snapshot time. + // This still seems to be better than not allowing use of the + // snapshot time before privatization safety has been ensured because + // we at least can run transactions such as this one, and in the + // meantime the transaction producing this commit time might have + // finished ensuring privatization safety for it. + priv_time = tx->shared_state.load(memory_order_relaxed); return true; } --- /dev/null +++ libitm/testsuite/libitm.c/priv-1.c @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +/* Quick stress test for proxy privatization. */ + +/* We need to use a TM method that has to enforce privatization safety + explicitly. */ +/* { dg-set-target-env-var ITM_DEFAULT_METHOD "ml_wt" } */ +/* { dg-options "-std=gnu11" } */ + +#include +#include +#include + +/* Make them likely to be mapped to different orecs. */ +#define ALIGN __attribute__((aligned (256))) +/* Don't make these static to work around PR 68591. */ +int x ALIGN; +int *ptr ALIGN; +int *priv_ptr ALIGN; +int priv_value ALIGN; +int barrier ALIGN = 0; +const int iters = 100; + +static void arrive_and_wait (int expected_value) +{ + int now = __atomic_add_fetch (&barrier, 1, __ATOMIC_ACQ_REL); + while (now < expected_value) + __atomic_load (&barrier, &now, __ATOMIC_ACQUIRE); +} + +static void __attribute__((transaction_pure,noinline)) delay (int i) +{ + for (volatile int v = 0; v < i; v++); +} + +/* This tries to catch a case in which proxy privatization safety is not + ensured by privatization_user. Specifically, it's access to the value + of it's transactional snapshot of ptr must read from an uncommitted write + by writer; thus, writer must still be active but must have read ptr before + proxy can privatize *ptr by assigning to ptr. + We try to make this interleaving more likely by delaying the commit of + writer and the start of proxy. */ +static void *writer (void *dummy __attribute__((unused))) +{ + for (int i = 0; i < iters; i++) + { + /* Initialize state in each round. */ + x = 0; + ptr = &x; + priv_ptr = NULL; + int wrote = 1; + arrive_and_wait (i * 6 + 3); + /* Interference by another writer. Has a conflict with the proxy + privatizer. */ + __transaction_atomic + { + if (ptr != NULL) + *ptr = 1; + else + wrote = 0; + delay (2000000); + } + arrive_and_wait (i * 6 + 6); + /* If the previous transaction committed first, wrote == 1 and x == 1; + otherwise, if the proxy came first, wrote == 0 and priv_value == 0. + */ + if (wrote != priv_value) + abort (); + } + return NULL; +} + +static void *proxy (void *dummy __attribute__((unused))) +{ + for (int i = 0; i < iters; i++) + { + arrive_and_wait (i * 6 + 3); + delay(1000000); + __transaction_atomic + { + /* Hand-off to privatization-user and its read-only transaction and + subsequent use of privatization. */ + priv_ptr = ptr; + ptr = NULL; + } + arrive_and_wait (i * 6 + 6); + } + return NULL; +} + +static void *privatization_user (void *dummy __attribute__((unused))) +{ + for (int i = 0; i < iters; i++) + { + arrive_and_wait (i * 6 + 3); + /* Spin until we have gotten a pointer from the proxy. Then access + the value pointed to nontransactionally. */ + int *p = NULL; + while (p == NULL) + __transaction_atomic { p = priv_ptr; } + priv_value = *p; + arrive_and_wait (i * 6 + 6); + } + return NULL; +} + +int main() +{ + pthread_t p[3]; + + pthread_create (p+0, NULL, writer, NULL); + pthread_create (p+1, NULL, proxy, NULL); + pthread_create (p+2, NULL, privatization_user, NULL); + + for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i) + pthread_join (p[i], NULL); + + return 0; +}