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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Justin Chen via Libc-help <libc-help@sourceware.org>
Cc: Justin Chen <justinpopo6@gmail.com>,
	 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Glibc pthread_rwlock_timed*() Optimization Bug
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2021 08:20:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1dzr3k6.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJx26kU_T=uam6uZOcHJ9_a-G2onePtHCU9q2F2g0OhoJzR51w@mail.gmail.com> (Justin Chen via Libc-help's message of "Tue, 7 Sep 2021 14:31:58 -0700")

* Justin Chen via Libc-help:

> It seems like the compiler is incorrectly optimizing the loop because
> it is not informed that the value of __wrphase_futex can be changed in
> another context, which I believe should be done with the volatile
> attribute.
> Does this analysis look correct?

Yes, it's a bug/misfeature in our custom atomics implementation.  Thanks
for tracking it down.

Florian


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-08  6:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-07 21:31 Justin Chen
2021-09-07 21:33 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-09-08  6:14   ` Florian Weimer
2021-09-08  6:20 ` Florian Weimer [this message]

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