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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:24:52 +0100
From:      Alexandre Martins <alexandre.martins@stormshield.eu>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: smp_rendezvous_action: Are atomics correctly used ?
Message-ID:  <1584060.AQ0HNTQbMq@pc-alex>
In-Reply-To: <20170309142516.GA16105@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <2092905.6A8RAGlt18@pc-alex> <3034263.GEZH9i4V44@pc-alex> <20170309142516.GA16105@kib.kiev.ua>

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Le jeudi 9 mars 2017, 16:25:17 Konstantin Belousov a crit :
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 02:52:09PM +0100, Alexandre Martins wrote:
> > Le jeudi 9 mars 2017, 15:07:54 Konstantin Belousov a ?crit :
> > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:59:27AM +0100, Alexandre Martins wrote:
> > > > I have the save question for the cpu_ipi_pending here:
> > > > 
> > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/x86/x86/mp_x86.c?view=annotat
> > > > e#l1
> > > > 080>
> > > > 
> > > > Le jeudi 9 mars 2017, 10:43:14 Alexandre Martins a ?crit :
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I'm curently reading the code of the function smp_rendezvous_action,
> > > > > in
> > > > > kern/subr_smp.c file. In that function, i see that the variable
> > > > > smp_rv_waiters is read in some while() loop in a non-atomic way.
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/kern/subr_smp.c?view=annota
> > > > > te#l
> > > > > 412
> > > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/kern/subr_smp.c?view=annota
> > > > > te#l
> > > > > 458
> > > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/kern/subr_smp.c?view=annota
> > > > > te#l
> > > > > 472
> > > > > 
> > > > > I suspect one of my freeze to be due by that.
> > > 
> > > You should provide either evidence or, at least, some reasoning
> > > supporting
> > > your claims.
> > 
> > I curently have a software watchdog that triger and does a coredump. In
> > the
> > coredumps, I always see a CPU trying to write-lock a "rm lock". Every
> > time,
> > that CPU is spinning into the smp_rendezvous_action, in the first while
> > loop) while the others are into the idle threads.
> > 
> > The fact is that freeze is not clear and I start to search "exotic" causes
> > to explain it.
> 
> This sounds as the 'usual' deadlock, where some other thread owns rmlock in
> read mode.  I recommend you to follow the
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kernel
> debug-deadlocks.html

Just a last question, for my personnal knowledge.

In ARM >= 6, for atomic acces, the code should (?) use LDREX and STREX for, I 
quote : "Use LDREX and STREX to implement interprocess communication in 
multiple-processor and shared-memory systems." (see here : 
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0489e/Cihbghef.html

But, in that while loop, it's a standard "LDR" that is used. Is it correct 
too, and why ?

-- 
Alexandre Martins
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