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authorTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-07-22 09:26:02 -0300
committerMike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>2016-01-24 03:51:55 -0500
commitb4f19537f9d26dbf95bd2e7d9c056400ad1b5723 (patch)
treea0da27d3ca835771476521fb83a2251adb44c802
parent0f74aed2de00dfbcae8e0217d6abdd5634e1c69c (diff)
downloadglibc-b4f19537f9d26dbf95bd2e7d9c056400ad1b5723.tar.gz
PowerPC: Fix a race condition when eliding a lock
The previous code used to evaluate the preprocessor token is_lock_free to a variable before starting a transaction. This behavior can cause an error if another thread got the lock (without using a transaction) between the evaluation of the token and the beginning of the transaction. This bug can be triggered with the following order of events: 1. The lock accessed by is_lock_free is free. 2. Thread T1 evaluates is_lock_free and stores into register R1 that the lock is free. 3. Thread T2 acquires the same lock used in is_lock_free. 4. T1 begins the transaction, creating a memory barrier where is_lock_free is false, but R1 is true. 5. T1 reads R1 and doesn't abort the transaction. 6. T1 calls ELIDE_UNLOCK, which reads false from is_lock_free and decides to unlock a lock acquired by T2, leading to undefined behavior. This patch delays the evaluation of is_lock_free to inside a transaction by moving this part of the code to the macro ELIDE_LOCK. [BZ #18743] * sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/elide.h (__elide_lock): Move most of this code to... (ELIDE_LOCK): ...here. (__get_new_count): New function with part of the code from __elide_lock that updates the value of adapt_count after a transaction abort. (__elided_trylock): Moved this code to... (ELIDE_TRYLOCK): ...here. (cherry picked from commit 6ec52bf634b7650b57ff67b5f5053bce8992d549) (cherry picked from commit 5b319ce2949cf6fb97862ff81558944f76c704f1)
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/elide.h115
1 files changed, 63 insertions, 52 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/elide.h b/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/elide.h
index 389f5a5e9e..12171f45dc 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/elide.h
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/elide.h
@@ -23,67 +23,78 @@
# include <htm.h>
# include <elision-conf.h>
-/* Returns true if the lock defined by is_lock_free as elided.
- ADAPT_COUNT is a pointer to per-lock state variable. */
-
+/* Get the new value of adapt_count according to the elision
+ configurations. Returns true if the system should retry again or false
+ otherwise. */
static inline bool
-__elide_lock (uint8_t *adapt_count, int is_lock_free)
+__get_new_count (uint8_t *adapt_count)
{
- if (*adapt_count > 0)
+ /* A persistent failure indicates that a retry will probably
+ result in another failure. Use normal locking now and
+ for the next couple of calls. */
+ if (_TEXASRU_FAILURE_PERSISTENT (__builtin_get_texasru ()))
{
- (*adapt_count)--;
+ if (__elision_aconf.skip_lock_internal_abort > 0)
+ *adapt_count = __elision_aconf.skip_lock_internal_abort;
return false;
}
-
- for (int i = __elision_aconf.try_tbegin; i > 0; i--)
- {
- if (__builtin_tbegin (0))
- {
- if (is_lock_free)
- return true;
- /* Lock was busy. */
- __builtin_tabort (_ABORT_LOCK_BUSY);
- }
- else
- {
- /* A persistent failure indicates that a retry will probably
- result in another failure. Use normal locking now and
- for the next couple of calls. */
- if (_TEXASRU_FAILURE_PERSISTENT (__builtin_get_texasru ()))
- {
- if (__elision_aconf.skip_lock_internal_abort > 0)
- *adapt_count = __elision_aconf.skip_lock_internal_abort;
- break;
- }
- /* Same logic as above, but for a number of temporary failures in a
- a row. */
- else if (__elision_aconf.skip_lock_out_of_tbegin_retries > 0
- && __elision_aconf.try_tbegin > 0)
- *adapt_count = __elision_aconf.skip_lock_out_of_tbegin_retries;
- }
- }
-
- return false;
+ /* Same logic as above, but for a number of temporary failures in a
+ a row. */
+ else if (__elision_aconf.skip_lock_out_of_tbegin_retries > 0
+ && __elision_aconf.try_tbegin > 0)
+ *adapt_count = __elision_aconf.skip_lock_out_of_tbegin_retries;
+ return true;
}
-# define ELIDE_LOCK(adapt_count, is_lock_free) \
- __elide_lock (&(adapt_count), is_lock_free)
-
-
-static inline bool
-__elide_trylock (uint8_t *adapt_count, int is_lock_free, int write)
-{
- if (__elision_aconf.try_tbegin > 0)
- {
- if (write)
- __builtin_tabort (_ABORT_NESTED_TRYLOCK);
- return __elide_lock (adapt_count, is_lock_free);
- }
- return false;
-}
+/* CONCURRENCY NOTES:
+
+ The evaluation of the macro expression is_lock_free encompasses one or
+ more loads from memory locations that are concurrently modified by other
+ threads. For lock elision to work, this evaluation and the rest of the
+ critical section protected by the lock must be atomic because an
+ execution with lock elision must be equivalent to an execution in which
+ the lock would have been actually acquired and released. Therefore, we
+ evaluate is_lock_free inside of the transaction that represents the
+ critical section for which we want to use lock elision, which ensures
+ the atomicity that we require. */
+
+/* Returns 0 if the lock defined by is_lock_free was elided.
+ ADAPT_COUNT is a per-lock state variable. */
+# define ELIDE_LOCK(adapt_count, is_lock_free) \
+ ({ \
+ int ret = 0; \
+ if (adapt_count > 0) \
+ (adapt_count)--; \
+ else \
+ for (int i = __elision_aconf.try_tbegin; i > 0; i--) \
+ { \
+ if (__builtin_tbegin (0)) \
+ { \
+ if (is_lock_free) \
+ { \
+ ret = 1; \
+ break; \
+ } \
+ __builtin_tabort (_ABORT_LOCK_BUSY); \
+ } \
+ else \
+ if (!__get_new_count(&adapt_count)) \
+ break; \
+ } \
+ ret; \
+ })
# define ELIDE_TRYLOCK(adapt_count, is_lock_free, write) \
- __elide_trylock (&(adapt_count), is_lock_free, write)
+ ({ \
+ int ret = 0; \
+ if (__elision_aconf.try_tbegin > 0) \
+ { \
+ if (write) \
+ __builtin_tabort (_ABORT_NESTED_TRYLOCK); \
+ ret = ELIDE_LOCK (adapt_count, is_lock_free); \
+ } \
+ ret; \
+ })
static inline bool