* [2.28 COMMITTED] powerpc: Only enable TLE with PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC
@ 2019-01-01 0:00 Florian Weimer
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From: Florian Weimer @ 2019-01-01 0:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: libc-stable
From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Linux from 3.9 through 4.2 does not abort HTM transaction on syscalls,
instead it suspend and resume it when leaving the kernel. The
side-effects of the syscall will always remain visible, even if the
transaction is aborted. This is an issue when transaction is used along
with futex syscall, on pthread_cond_wait for instance, where the futex
call might succeed but the transaction is rolled back leading the
pthread_cond object in an inconsistent state.
Glibc used to prevent it by always aborting a transaction before issuing
a syscall. Linux 4.2 also decided to abort active transaction in
syscalls which makes the glibc workaround superfluous. Worse, glibc
transaction abortion leads to a performance issue on recent kernels
where the HTM state is saved/restore lazily (v4.9). By aborting a
transaction on every syscalls, regardless whether a transaction has being
initiated before, GLIBS makes the kernel always save/restore HTM state
(it can not even lazily disable it after a certain number of syscall
iterations).
Because of this shortcoming, Transactional Lock Elision is just enabled
when it has been explicitly set (either by tunables of by a configure
switch) and if kernel aborts HTM transactions on syscalls
(PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC). It is reported that using simple benchmark [1],
the context-switch is about 5% faster by not issuing a tabort in every
syscall in newer kernels.
Checked on powerpc64le-linux-gnu with 4.4.0 kernel (Ubuntu 16.04).
* NEWS: Add note about new TLE support on powerpc64le.
* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym (TM_CAPABLE): Remove.
* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tls.h (tcbhead_t): Rename tm_capable to
__ununsed1.
(TLS_INIT_TP, TLS_DEFINE_INIT_TP): Remove tm_capable setup.
(THREAD_GET_TM_CAPABLE, THREAD_SET_TM_CAPABLE): Remove macros.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h,
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h (ABORT_TRANSACTION_IMPL,
ABORT_TRANSACTION): Remove macros.
* sysdeps/powerpc/sysdep.h (ABORT_TRANSACTION): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-conf.c (elision_init): Set
__pthread_force_elision iff PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC is set.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h,
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscall.S (ABORT_TRANSACTION): Remove
usage.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/not-errno.h: Remove file.
Reported-by: Breno Leitão <leitao@debian.org>
(cherry picked from commit f0458cf4f9ff3d870c43b624e6dccaaf657d5e83)
2018-09-21 Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
* NEWS: Add note about new TLE support on powerpc64le.
* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym (TM_CAPABLE): Remove.
* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tls.h (tcbhead_t): Rename tm_capable to
__ununsed1.
(TLS_INIT_TP, TLS_DEFINE_INIT_TP): Remove tm_capable setup.
(THREAD_GET_TM_CAPABLE, THREAD_SET_TM_CAPABLE): Remove macros.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h,
sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h (ABORT_TRANSACTION_IMPL,
ABORT_TRANSACTION): Remove macros.
* sysdeps/powerpc/sysdep.h (ABORT_TRANSACTION): Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-conf.c (elision_init): Set
__pthread_force_elision iff PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC is set.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h,
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscall.S (ABORT_TRANSACTION): Remove
usage.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/not-errno.h: Remove file.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2d5a514dfd..60b15116d6 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,17 @@ using `glibc' in the "product" field.
\f
Version 2.28.1
+Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
+
+* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
+ indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
+ (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
+ suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
+ transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
+ each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
+ HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
+ process actually does not use HTM).
+
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[19444] build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym b/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym
index e5bb2b376d..4c01615ad0 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ DSO_SLOT2 (offsetof (tcbhead_t, dso_slot2) - TLS_TCB_OFFSET - sizeof (tcbhead_
#ifdef __powerpc64__
TCB_AT_PLATFORM (offsetof (tcbhead_t, at_platform) - TLS_TCB_OFFSET - sizeof(tcbhead_t))
#endif
-TM_CAPABLE (offsetof (tcbhead_t, tm_capable) - TLS_TCB_OFFSET - sizeof (tcbhead_t))
#ifndef __powerpc64__
TCB_AT_PLATFORM (offsetof (tcbhead_t, at_platform) - TLS_TCB_OFFSET - sizeof(tcbhead_t))
PADDING (offsetof (tcbhead_t, padding) - TLS_TCB_OFFSET - sizeof(tcbhead_t))
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tls.h b/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tls.h
index f88fed5ecf..8317ca7cfa 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tls.h
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tls.h
@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ typedef struct
uint32_t padding;
uint32_t at_platform;
#endif
- /* Indicate if HTM capable (ISA 2.07). */
- uint32_t tm_capable;
+ uint32_t __unused;
/* Reservation for AT_PLATFORM data - powerpc64. */
#ifdef __powerpc64__
uint32_t at_platform;
@@ -142,7 +141,6 @@ register void *__thread_register __asm__ ("r13");
# define TLS_INIT_TP(tcbp) \
({ \
__thread_register = (void *) (tcbp) + TLS_TCB_OFFSET; \
- THREAD_SET_TM_CAPABLE (__tcb_hwcap & PPC_FEATURE2_HAS_HTM ? 1 : 0); \
THREAD_SET_HWCAP (__tcb_hwcap); \
THREAD_SET_AT_PLATFORM (__tcb_platform); \
NULL; \
@@ -151,8 +149,6 @@ register void *__thread_register __asm__ ("r13");
/* Value passed to 'clone' for initialization of the thread register. */
# define TLS_DEFINE_INIT_TP(tp, pd) \
void *tp = (void *) (pd) + TLS_TCB_OFFSET + TLS_PRE_TCB_SIZE; \
- (((tcbhead_t *) ((char *) tp - TLS_TCB_OFFSET))[-1].tm_capable) = \
- THREAD_GET_TM_CAPABLE (); \
(((tcbhead_t *) ((char *) tp - TLS_TCB_OFFSET))[-1].hwcap) = \
THREAD_GET_HWCAP (); \
(((tcbhead_t *) ((char *) tp - TLS_TCB_OFFSET))[-1].at_platform) = \
@@ -210,13 +206,6 @@ register void *__thread_register __asm__ ("r13");
+ TLS_PRE_TCB_SIZE))[-1].pointer_guard \
= THREAD_GET_POINTER_GUARD())
-/* tm_capable field in TCB head. */
-# define THREAD_GET_TM_CAPABLE() \
- (((tcbhead_t *) ((char *) __thread_register \
- - TLS_TCB_OFFSET))[-1].tm_capable)
-# define THREAD_SET_TM_CAPABLE(value) \
- (THREAD_GET_TM_CAPABLE () = (value))
-
/* hwcap field in TCB head. */
# define THREAD_GET_HWCAP() \
(((tcbhead_t *) ((char *) __thread_register \
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h
index 5f1294ead3..93097c5459 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h
@@ -90,24 +90,7 @@ GOT_LABEL: ; \
cfi_endproc; \
ASM_SIZE_DIRECTIVE(name)
-#if !IS_IN(rtld) && !defined(__SPE__)
-# define ABORT_TRANSACTION_IMPL \
- cmpwi 2,0; \
- beq 1f; \
- lwz 0,TM_CAPABLE(2); \
- cmpwi 0,0; \
- beq 1f; \
- li 11,_ABORT_SYSCALL; \
- tabort. 11; \
- .align 4; \
-1:
-#else
-# define ABORT_TRANSACTION_IMPL
-#endif
-#define ABORT_TRANSACTION ABORT_TRANSACTION_IMPL
-
#define DO_CALL(syscall) \
- ABORT_TRANSACTION \
li 0,syscall; \
sc
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
index 2df1d9b6e6..50e64f9ce2 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
@@ -263,24 +263,7 @@ LT_LABELSUFFIX(name,_name_end): ; \
TRACEBACK_MASK(name,mask); \
END_2(name)
-#if !IS_IN(rtld)
-# define ABORT_TRANSACTION_IMPL \
- cmpdi 13,0; \
- beq 1f; \
- lwz 0,TM_CAPABLE(13); \
- cmpwi 0,0; \
- beq 1f; \
- li 11,_ABORT_SYSCALL; \
- tabort. 11; \
- .p2align 4; \
-1:
-#else
-# define ABORT_TRANSACTION_IMPL
-#endif
-#define ABORT_TRANSACTION ABORT_TRANSACTION_IMPL
-
#define DO_CALL(syscall) \
- ABORT_TRANSACTION \
li 0,syscall; \
sc
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/sysdep.h b/sysdeps/powerpc/sysdep.h
index 8a6d236caa..c8bf25e870 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/sysdep.h
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/sysdep.h
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@
*/
#define _SYSDEPS_SYSDEP_H 1
#include <bits/hwcap.h>
-#include <tls.h>
-#include <htm.h>
#define PPC_FEATURE_970 (PPC_FEATURE_POWER4 + PPC_FEATURE_HAS_ALTIVEC)
@@ -166,22 +164,4 @@
#define ALIGNARG(log2) log2
#define ASM_SIZE_DIRECTIVE(name) .size name,.-name
-#else
-
-/* Linux kernel powerpc documentation [1] states issuing a syscall inside a
- transaction is not recommended and may lead to undefined behavior. It
- also states syscalls do not abort transactions. To avoid such traps,
- we abort transaction just before syscalls.
-
- [1] Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt [Syscalls] */
-#if !IS_IN(rtld) && !defined(__SPE__)
-# define ABORT_TRANSACTION \
- ({ \
- if (THREAD_GET_TM_CAPABLE ()) \
- __libc_tabort (_ABORT_SYSCALL); \
- })
-#else
-# define ABORT_TRANSACTION
-#endif
-
#endif /* __ASSEMBLER__ */
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-conf.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-conf.c
index 906882a65e..fc82bd1ad8 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-conf.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-conf.c
@@ -127,6 +127,26 @@ elision_init (int argc __attribute__ ((unused)),
TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_elision_skip_trylock_internal_abort));
#endif
+ /* Linux from 3.9 through 4.2 do not abort HTM transaction on syscalls,
+ instead it suspends the transaction and resumes it when returning to
+ usercode. The side-effects of the syscall will always remain visible,
+ even if the transaction is aborted. This is an issue when a transaction
+ is used along with futex syscall, on pthread_cond_wait for instance,
+ where futex might succeed but the transaction is rolled back leading
+ the condition variable object in an inconsistent state.
+
+ Glibc used to prevent it by always aborting a transaction before issuing
+ a syscall. Linux 4.2 also decided to abort active transaction in
+ syscalls which makes the glibc workaround superflours. Worse, glibc
+ transaction abortions leads to a performance issues on recent kernels.
+
+ So Lock Elision is just enabled when it has been explict set (either
+ by tunables of by a configure switch) and if kernel aborts HTM
+ transactions on syscalls (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC) */
+
+ __pthread_force_elision = (__pthread_force_elision
+ && GLRO (dl_hwcap2) & PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC);
+
if (!__pthread_force_elision)
__elision_aconf.try_tbegin = 0; /* Disable elision on rwlocks. */
}
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/not-errno.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/not-errno.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 27da21bdf1..0000000000
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/not-errno.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-/* Syscall wrapper that do not set errno. Linux powerpc version.
- Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- This file is part of the GNU C Library.
-
- The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
- License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-
- The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- Lesser General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
- License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
- <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
-
-/* __access_noerrno is used during process initialization in elf/dl-tunables.c
- before the TCB is initialized, prohibiting the usage of
- ABORT_TRANSACTION. */
-#undef ABORT_TRANSACTION
-#define ABORT_TRANSACTION
-
-#include "sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/not-errno.h"
-
-/* Recover ABORT_TRANSACTION's previous value, in order to not affect
- other syscalls. */
-#undef ABORT_TRANSACTION
-#define ABORT_TRANSACTION ABORT_TRANSACTION_IMPL
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h
index f7277d59e1..ec5c5250f8 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@
register long int r11 __asm__ ("r11"); \
register long int r12 __asm__ ("r12"); \
LOADARGS_##nr(name, args); \
- ABORT_TRANSACTION; \
__asm__ __volatile__ \
("sc \n\t" \
"mfcr %0" \
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
index 0956cf04a7..1f17f7bd5f 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
@@ -131,7 +131,6 @@
register long int r7 __asm__ ("r7"); \
register long int r8 __asm__ ("r8"); \
LOADARGS_##nr (name, ##args); \
- ABORT_TRANSACTION; \
__asm__ __volatile__ \
("sc\n\t" \
"mfcr %0\n\t" \
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscall.S b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscall.S
index 2da91721be..bbab613aca 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscall.S
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscall.S
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
#include <sysdep.h>
ENTRY (syscall)
- ABORT_TRANSACTION
mr r0,r3
mr r3,r4
mr r4,r5
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