Re: Bug in herd7 [Was: Re: Litmus test for question from Al Viro]
From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date: 2020-10-05 19:48:37
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From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date: 2020-10-05 19:48:37
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 12:18:01PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
Aside from naming and comment, how about my adding the following? Thanx, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ C crypto-control-data-1
Let's call it something more along the lines of dependencies-in-nested-expressions. Maybe you can think of something a little more succinct, but that's the general idea of the test.
(* * LB plus crypto-mb-data plus data.
The actual pattern is LB+mb+data.
*
* Result: Never
*
* This is an example of OOTA and we would like it to be forbidden.
* If you want herd7 to get the right answer, you must use herdtools
* 0f3f8188a326 (" [herd] Fix dependency definition") or later.
Versions of herd7 prior to commit 0f3f8188a326 ("[herd] Fix dependency
definition") recognize data dependencies only when they flow through an
intermediate local variable. Since the dependency in P1 doesn't, those
versions get the wrong answer for this test.
*)
{}
P0(int *x, int *y)
{
int r1;
r1 = READ_ONCE(*x);
smp_mb();
WRITE_ONCE(*y, r1);
}
P1(int *x, int *y)
{
int r2;No need for r2.
WRITE_ONCE(*x, READ_ONCE(*y)); } exists (0:r1=1)
Alan