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From: Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PING][PATCH] Fix race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP [BZ #23275]
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 06:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc1376c0-235c-2d79-1345-155f29c17141@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4614fea8-43b9-0125-1346-603ad8ad66e4@linux.ibm.com>

PING

On 06/19/2018 09:45 AM, Stefan Liebler wrote:
> PING
> 
> On 06/12/2018 04:24 PM, Stefan Liebler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The race leads either to pthread_mutex_destroy returning EBUSY or 
>> triggering an assertion (See description in bugzilla).
>>
>> This patch is fixing the race by ensuring that the elision path is 
>> used in all cases if elision is enabled by the GLIBC_TUNABLES framework.
>>
>> The __kind variable in struct __pthread_mutex_s is accessed 
>> concurrently. Therefore we are now using the atomic macros.
>>
>> The new testcase tst-mutex10 is triggering the race on s390x and 
>> intel. Presumably also on power, but I don't have access to a power 
>> machine with lock-elision. At least the code for power is the same as 
>> on the other two architectures. Can somebody test it on power?
>>
>> Bye
>> Stefan
>>
>> ChangeLog:
>>
>>      [BZ #23275]
>>      * nptl/tst-mutex10.c: New File.
>>      * nptl/Makefile (tests): Add tst-mutex10.
>>      (tst-mutex-ENV): New variable.
>>      * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/force-elision.h: (FORCE_ELISION):
>>      Ensure that elision path is used if elision is available.
>>      * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/force-elision.h
>>      (FORCE_ELISION): Likewise.
>>      * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/force-elision.h: (FORCE_ELISION):
>>      Likewise.
>>      * nptl/pthreadP.h (PTHREAD_MUTEX_TYPE,
>>      PTHREAD_MUTEX_TYPE_ELISION, PTHREAD_MUTEX_PSHARED):
>>      Use atomic_load_relaxed.
>>      * nptl/pthread_mutex_consistent.c (pthread_mutex_consistent):
>>      Likewise.
>>      * nptl/pthread_mutex_getprioceiling.c
>>      (pthread_mutex_getprioceiling): Likewise.
>>      * nptl/pthread_mutex_lock.c (__pthread_mutex_lock_full,
>>      __pthread_mutex_cond_lock_adjust): Likewise.
>>      * nptl/pthread_mutex_setprioceiling.c
>>      (pthread_mutex_setprioceiling): Likewise.
>>      * nptl/pthread_mutex_timedlock.c (__pthread_mutex_timedlock):
>>      Likewise.
>>      * nptl/pthread_mutex_trylock.c (__pthread_mutex_trylock):
>>      Likewise.
>>      * nptl/pthread_mutex_unlock.c (__pthread_mutex_unlock_full):
>>      Likewise.
>>      * sysdeps/nptl/bits/thread-shared-types.h
>>      (struct __pthread_mutex_s): Add comments.
>>      * nptl/pthread_mutex_destroy.c (__pthread_mutex_destroy):
>>      Use atomic_load_relaxed and atomic_store_relaxed.
>>      * nptl/pthread_mutex_init.c (__pthread_mutex_init):
>>      Use atomic_store_relaxed.
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-26  6:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-12 14:25 [PATCH] " Stefan Liebler
2018-06-13  8:43 ` Florian Weimer
2018-06-13  9:18   ` Stefan Liebler
2018-06-13  9:36     ` Florian Weimer
2018-06-13 15:25       ` Stefan Liebler
2018-06-14  8:04         ` Stefan Liebler
2018-06-13 21:45     ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2018-06-19  7:45 ` Stefan Liebler
2018-06-26  6:45   ` Stefan Liebler [this message]
2018-07-03  6:28     ` [PING][PATCH] " Stefan Liebler
2018-07-10  6:34       ` Stefan Liebler
2018-07-16 11:57         ` Stefan Liebler
2018-07-23  6:42           ` Stefan Liebler
2018-07-30  7:22             ` Stefan Liebler
2018-08-27  9:12               ` Stefan Liebler
2018-09-03  7:10                 ` Stefan Liebler
2018-09-10 12:01                   ` Stefan Liebler
2018-09-17 13:38 ` [PATCH] " Florian Weimer
2018-10-04 16:08   ` Stefan Liebler
2018-10-16 14:23     ` Florian Weimer
2018-10-17 10:36       ` Stefan Liebler
2018-10-18 13:24         ` [COMMITTED 2.27 / 2.28] " Stefan Liebler

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