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From: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com>,
	'GNU C Library' <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use C11 atomics instead of atomic_and/or
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:34:49 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f9cfb76-5d9f-7d10-3e28-e9c740bfe722@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AS4PR08MB79014E3976F473B352C209EE834E9@AS4PR08MB7901.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>



On 22/09/22 11:06, Wilco Dijkstra wrote:
> Hi Adhemerval,
> 
>> LGTM, the current atomic_or and atomic_and have acquire semantic already.  What
>> I am not not sure if if we need to use release MO on start_thread, since the
>> idea is to synchronize with the locking on pthread_mutex_lock.
> 
> Indeed, it is not clear what is being synchronized with the FUTEX_OWNER_DIED
> flag. However it is being used in a lock, so I kept the implied acquire MO of the
> old atomics. If it is simply a flag that does not affect locking and the data
> protected by the lock, then relaxed MO would be correct. However that requires
> detective work to try to reverse engineer the intended implementation...

I tried to check with kernel robust implementation, but this specific code is
a fallback that should be handled by the kernel. It currently used on very
specific cases (qemu and some old architectures that do not support 
set_robust_list) so I think we reevaluate it later.

      reply	other threads:[~2022-09-23 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-05 16:48 Wilco Dijkstra
2022-09-21 17:08 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-09-22 14:06   ` Wilco Dijkstra
2022-09-23 13:34     ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto [this message]

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