fix missing synchronization in atomic store on i386 and x86_64

despite being strongly ordered, the x86 memory model does not preclude
reordering of loads across earlier stores. while a plain store
suffices as a release barrier, we actually need a full barrier, since
users of a_store subsequently load a waiter count to determine whether
to issue a futex wait, and using a stale count will result in soft
(fail-to-wake) deadlocks. these deadlocks were observed in malloc and
possible with stdio locks and other libc-internal locking.

on i386, an atomic operation on the caller's stack is used as the
barrier rather than performing the store itself using xchg; this
avoids the need to read the cache line on which the store is being
performed. mfence is used on x86_64 where it's always available, and
could be used on i386 with the appropriate cpu model checks if it's
shown to perform better.

diff --git a/arch/i386/atomic.h b/arch/i386/atomic.h
index 95fecbd..25441df 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/i386/atomic.h
+++ b/arch/i386/atomic.h
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ static inline void a_dec(volatile int *x)
 
 static inline void a_store(volatile int *p, int x)
 {
-       __asm__( "movl %1, %0" : "=m"(*p) : "r"(x) : "memory" );
+       __asm__( "movl %1, %0 ; lock ; orl $0,(%%esp)" : "=m"(*p) : "r"(x) : "memory" );
 }
 
 static inline void a_spin()

diff --git a/arch/x32/atomic.h b/arch/x32/atomic.h
index b2014cc..2ab1f7a 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x32/atomic.h
+++ b/arch/x32/atomic.h
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static inline void a_dec(volatile int *x)
 
 static inline void a_store(volatile int *p, int x)
 {
-       __asm__( "mov %1, %0" : "=m"(*p) : "r"(x) : "memory" );
+       __asm__( "mov %1, %0 ; mfence" : "=m"(*p) : "r"(x) : "memory" );
 }
 
 static inline void a_spin()

diff --git a/arch/x86_64/atomic.h b/arch/x86_64/atomic.h
index b2014cc..2ab1f7a 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86_64/atomic.h
+++ b/arch/x86_64/atomic.h
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static inline void a_dec(volatile int *x)
 
 static inline void a_store(volatile int *p, int x)
 {
-       __asm__( "mov %1, %0" : "=m"(*p) : "r"(x) : "memory" );
+       __asm__( "mov %1, %0 ; mfence" : "=m"(*p) : "r"(x) : "memory" );
 }
 
 static inline void a_spin()