Re: Question about DEC Alpha memory ordering
From: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com>
Date: 2017-02-14 20:13:05
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 08:26:46AM +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 12:35:58PM +0100, Andrea Parri wrote:quoted
On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 01:24:36PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:quoted
------------------------------------------------------------------------ C auto/C-LB-LRW+OB-Ov (* * Result: Maybe * P0-P1 rf OB-Ov: Never->Maybe: Note lack of C11 guarantee, control dependency * P1 Ov,LRW: Note lack of C11 guarantee, control dependency *) { } P0(int *u0, int *x1) { r1 = READ_ONCE(*u0); smp_mb(); WRITE_ONCE(*x1, 1); } P1(int *u0, int *x1) { r1 = READ_ONCE(*x1); WRITE_ONCE(*u0, r1); } exists (0:r1=1 /\ 1:r1=1)The (automatically generated) module for this test is at http://retis.sssup.it/~a.parri/lkmm/C-LB-LRW+OB-Ov.tgz ; the test is run by cat-ing /sys/kernel/litmus/p_count: this will execute the thread bodies for "runs * size" iterations; results can be sentisive to the "stride" and "affinity increment" parameters (c.f., the Makefile); statistics for each experiments are printed on stdout.This is the test run on a 3-cpu ES45 with the settings in the Makefile: Test auto/LB-LRW+OB-Ov Allowed Histogram (2 states) 5913093 :> 0:r1=0; 1:r1=0; 4086907 :> 0:r1=0; 1:r1=1; No Witnesses Positive: 0 Negative: 10000000 Condition exists (0:r1=1 /\ 1:r1=1) is NOT validated Observation auto/LB-LRW+OB-Ov Never 0 10000000 Time auto/LB-LRW+OB-Ov 9.570 Hash=200258693ffc841829310726a4a0b7e3 How do we interpret these results?
Hi Michael. The log shows (together w/ other info.) an histogram [Total count] :> [Final state] where "Total count" is the number of times an execution of the test program led to the associated "Final state", here represented by the final values of the registers 0:r1, 1:r1. The log also shows statistics relative to the final state specified by the program's "exists" clause, here (0:r1=1 /\ 1:r1=1): this state was never observed (Positive: 0) over a total of 10000000 iterations/executions. Thank you for running the test and for sharing these results. Andrea
Cheers Michael.