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* -fprofile-update=atomic vs. 32-bit architectures
@ 2022-11-04  8:27 Sebastian Huber
  2022-11-04  9:53 ` Gabriel Paubert
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 17+ messages in thread
From: Sebastian Huber @ 2022-11-04  8:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: GCC Development

Hello,

even recent 32-bit architectures such as RISC-V do not support 64-bit 
atomic operations.  Using -fprofile-update=atomic for the 32-bit RISC-V 
RV32GC ISA yields:

warning: target does not support atomic profile update, single mode is 
selected

For multi-threaded applications it is quite important to use atomic 
counter increments to get valid coverage data. I think this fall back is 
not really good. Maybe we should consider using this approach from Jakub 
Jelinek for 32-bit architectures lacking 64-bit atomic operations:

   if (__atomic_add_fetch_4 ((unsigned int *) &val, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED) 
== 0)
     __atomic_fetch_add_4 (((unsigned int *) &val) + 1, 1, 
__ATOMIC_RELAXED);

https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/gcc/patch/19c4a81d-6ecd-8c6e-b641-e257c1959baf@suse.cz/#1447334

Last year I added the TARGET_GCOV_TYPE_SIZE target hook to optionally 
reduce the gcov type size to 32 bits. I am not really sure if this was a 
good idea. Longer running executables may observe counter overflows 
leading to invalid coverage data. If someone wants atomic updates, then 
the updates should be atomic even if this means to use a library 
implementation (libatomic).

What about the following approach if -fprofile-update=atomic is given:

1. Use 64-bit atomics if available.

2. Use

   if (__atomic_add_fetch_4 ((unsigned int *) &val, 1, __ATOMIC_RELAXED) 
== 0)
     __atomic_fetch_add_4 (((unsigned int *) &val) + 1, 1, 
__ATOMIC_RELAXED);

if 32-bit atomics are available.

3. Else use a library call (libatomic).

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2022-11-05 11:18 ` Richard Biener
2022-11-08  6:22   ` Sebastian Huber
2022-11-08 10:25     ` Richard Biener
2022-11-08 12:00       ` Sebastian Huber
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2022-12-06 16:08             ` Richard Biener
2022-12-07  8:51               ` Sebastian Huber
2022-12-07  9:09                 ` Richard Biener
2022-12-07  9:24                   ` Sebastian Huber
2022-12-07 11:49                     ` Richard Biener
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