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Adhemerval Zanella
f0458cf4f9 powerpc: Only enable TLE with PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC
Linux from 3.9 through 4.2 does not abort HTM transaction on syscalls,
instead it suspend and resume it when leaving the kernel.  The
side-effects of the syscall will always remain visible, even if the
transaction is aborted.  This is an issue when transaction is used along
with futex syscall, on pthread_cond_wait for instance, where the futex
call might succeed but the transaction is rolled back leading the
pthread_cond object in an inconsistent state.

Glibc used to prevent it by always aborting a transaction before issuing
a syscall.  Linux 4.2 also decided to abort active transaction in
syscalls which makes the glibc workaround superfluous.  Worse, glibc
transaction abortion leads to a performance issue on recent kernels
where the HTM state is saved/restore lazily (v4.9).  By aborting a
transaction on every syscalls, regardless whether a transaction has being
initiated before, GLIBS makes the kernel always save/restore HTM state
(it can not even lazily disable it after a certain number of syscall
iterations).

Because of this shortcoming, Transactional Lock Elision is just enabled
when it has been explicitly set (either by tunables of by a configure
switch) and if kernel aborts HTM transactions on syscalls
(PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC).  It is reported that using simple benchmark [1],
the context-switch is about 5% faster by not issuing a tabort in every
syscall in newer kernels.

Checked on powerpc64le-linux-gnu with 4.4.0 kernel (Ubuntu 16.04).

	* NEWS: Add note about new TLE support on powerpc64le.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym (TM_CAPABLE): Remove.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tls.h (tcbhead_t): Rename tm_capable to
	__ununsed1.
	(TLS_INIT_TP, TLS_DEFINE_INIT_TP): Remove tm_capable setup.
	(THREAD_GET_TM_CAPABLE, THREAD_SET_TM_CAPABLE): Remove macros.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h,
	sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h (ABORT_TRANSACTION_IMPL,
	ABORT_TRANSACTION): Remove macros.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/sysdep.h (ABORT_TRANSACTION): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-conf.c (elision_init): Set
	__pthread_force_elision iff PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC is set.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h,
	sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
	sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/syscall.S (ABORT_TRANSACTION): Remove
	usage.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/not-errno.h: Remove file.

Reported-by: Breno Leitão <leitao@debian.org>
2018-09-21 10:18:03 -07:00
H.J. Lu
0068c08588 nptl: Remove __ASSUME_PRIVATE_FUTEX
Since __ASSUME_PRIVATE_FUTEX is always defined, this patch removes the
!__ASSUME_PRIVATE_FUTEX paths.

Tested with build-many-glibcs.py.

	* nptl/allocatestack.c (allocate_stack): Remove the
	!__ASSUME_PRIVATE_FUTEX paths.
	* nptl/descr.h (header): Remove the !__ASSUME_PRIVATE_FUTEX path.
	* nptl/nptl-init.c (__pthread_initialize_minimal_internal):
	Likewise.
	* sysdeps/i386/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym (PRIVATE_FUTEX): Removed.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym (PRIVATE_FUTEX): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/sh/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym (PRIVATE_FUTEX): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym (PRIVATE_FUTEX): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/i386/nptl/tls.h: (tcbhead_t): Remve the
	!__ASSUME_PRIVATE_FUTEX path.
	* sysdeps/s390/nptl/tls.h (tcbhead_t): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/sparc/nptl/tls.h (tcbhead_t): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/tls.h (tcbhead_t): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/lowlevellock.S: Remove the
	!__ASSUME_PRIVATE_FUTEX macros.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/lowlevellock-futex.h: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/cancellation.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/lowlevellock.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h
	(__ASSUME_PRIVATE_FUTEX): Removed.
2018-05-17 04:25:10 -07:00
Adhemerval Zanella
c579f48edb Remove cached PID/TID in clone
This patch remove the PID cache and usage in current GLIBC code.  Current
usage is mainly used a performance optimization to avoid the syscall,
however it adds some issues:

  - The exposed clone syscall will try to set pid/tid to make the new
    thread somewhat compatible with current GLIBC assumptions.  This cause
    a set of issue with new workloads and usecases (such as BZ#17214 and
    [1]) as well for new internal usage of clone to optimize other algorithms
    (such as clone plus CLONE_VM for posix_spawn, BZ#19957).

  - The caching complexity also added some bugs in the past [2] [3] and
    requires more effort of each port to handle such requirements (for
    both clone and vfork implementation).

  - Caching performance gain in mainly on getpid and some specific
    code paths.  The getpid performance leverage is questionable [4],
    either by the idea of getpid being a hotspot as for the getpid
    implementation itself (if it is indeed a justifiable hotspot a
    vDSO symbol could let to a much more simpler solution).

    Other usage is mainly for non usual code paths, such as pthread
    cancellation signal and handling.

For thread creation (on stack allocation) the code simplification in fact
adds some performance gain due the no need of transverse the stack cache
and invalidate each element pid.

Other thread usages will require a direct getpid syscall, such as
cancellation/setxid signal, thread cancellation, thread fail path (at
create_thread), and thread signal (pthread_kill and pthread_sigqueue).
However these are hardly usual hotspots and I think adding a syscall is
justifiable.

It also simplifies both the clone and vfork arch-specific implementation.
And by review each fork implementation there are some discrepancies that
this patch also solves:

  - microblaze clone/vfork does not set/reset the pid/tid field
  - hppa uses the default vfork implementation that fallback to fork.
    Since vfork is deprecated I do not think we should bother with it.

The patch also removes the TID caching in clone. My understanding for
such semantic is try provide some pthread usage after a user program
issue clone directly (as done by thread creation with CLONE_PARENT_SETTID
and pthread tid member).  However, as stated before in multiple discussions
threads, GLIBC provides clone syscalls without further supporting all this
semantics.

I ran a full make check on x86_64, x32, i686, armhf, aarch64, and powerpc64le.
For sparc32, sparc64, and mips I ran the basic fork and vfork tests from
posix/ folder (on a qemu system).  So it would require further testing
on alpha, hppa, ia64, m68k, nios2, s390, sh, and tile (I excluded microblaze
because it is already implementing the patch semantic regarding clone/vfork).

[1] https://codereview.chromium.org/800183004/
[2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-07/msg00123.html
[3] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15368
[4] http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/getpid_caching.html

	* sysdeps/nptl/fork.c (__libc_fork): Remove pid cache setting.
	* nptl/allocatestack.c (allocate_stack): Likewise.
	(__reclaim_stacks): Likewise.
	(setxid_signal_thread): Obtain pid through syscall.
	* nptl/nptl-init.c (sigcancel_handler): Likewise.
	(sighandle_setxid): Likewise.
	* nptl/pthread_cancel.c (pthread_cancel): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_kill.c (__pthread_kill): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_sigqueue.c (pthread_sigqueue):
	Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/createthread.c (create_thread): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpid.c: Remove file.
	* nptl/descr.h (struct pthread): Change comment about pid value.
	* nptl/pthread_getattr_np.c (pthread_getattr_np): Remove thread
	pid assert.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread-pids.h (__pthread_initialize_pids):
	Do not set pid value.
	* nptl_db/td_ta_thr_iter.c (iterate_thread_list): Remove thread
	pid cache check.
	* nptl_db/td_thr_validate.c (td_thr_validate): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/aarch64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Remove pid offset.
	* sysdeps/alpha/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/arm/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/hppa/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/i386/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/ia64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/m68k/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/microblaze/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/mips/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/nios2/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/s390/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/sh/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/sparc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/tile/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/clone.S: Remove pid and tid caching.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/clone2.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nios2/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/vfork.S: Remove pid set and reset.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/ia64/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/clone.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/m68k/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/nios2/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-64/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sh/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc32/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/sparc64/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tile/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/vfork.S: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/tst-clone2.c (f): Remove direct pthread
	struct access.
	(clone_test): Remove function.
	(do_test): Rewrite to take in consideration pid is not cached anymore.
2016-11-24 19:38:51 -02:00
Carlos Eduardo Seo
67385a01d2 powerpc: Add hwcap/hwcap2/platform data to TCB.
This patch adds a new feature for powerpc.  In order to get faster access to
the HWCAP/HWCAP2 bits and platform number (i.e. for implementing
__builtin_cpu_is () / __builtin_cpu_supports () in GCC) without the overhead of
reading from the auxiliary vector, we now reserve space for them in the TCB.
This is an ABI change for GLIBC 2.23.

A new versioned symbol '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform' is available to
get the data from the auxiliary vector and parse it, and store it for later use
in the TLS initialization code.  This function is called very early
(in _dl_sysdep_start () via DL_PLATFORM_INFO for the dynamic linking case, and
in __libc_start_main () for the static linking case) to make sure the data is
available at the time of TLS initialization.

	* sysdeps/powerpc/Makefile (sysdep-dl-routines): Add hwcapinfo.
	(sysdep_routines): Likewise.
	(sysdep-rtld-routines): Likewise.
	[$(subdir) = nptl](tests): Add test-get_hwcap and test-get_hwcap-static
	[$(subdir) = nptl](tests-static): test-get_hwcap-static
	* sysdeps/powerpc/Versions: Added new
	__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform symbol to GLIBC-2.23.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/hwcapinfo.c: New file.
	(__tcb_parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform): New function to initialize
	and parse hwcap, hwcap2 and platform number information.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/hwcapinfo.h: New file.  Creates global variables
	to store HWCAP+HWCAP2 and platform number.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Added new offsets
	for HWCAP+HWCAP2 and platform number in the TCB.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tls.h: New functionality.  Stores
	the HWCAP, HWCAP2 and platform number in the TCB.
	(dtv): Added new fields for HWCAP+HWCAP2 and platform number.
	(TLS_INIT_TP): Included calls to add the hwcap and
	at_platform values in the TCB in TP initialization.
	(TLS_DEFINE_INIT_TP): Likewise.
	(THREAD_GET_HWCAP): New macro.
	(THREAD_SET_HWCAP): Likewise.
	(THREAD_GET_AT_PLATFORM): Likewise.
	(THREAD_SET_AT_PLATFORM): Likewise.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-machine.h:
	(dl_platform_init): New function that calls
	__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform for the dymanic linking case for
	powerpc32.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/dl-machine.h: Likewise, for powerpc64.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/test-get_hwcap-static.c: New file.  Testcase for
	this functionality, static linking case.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/test-get_hwcap.c: New file.  Likewise, dynamic
	linking case.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/libc-start.c: Added call to
	__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform for the static linking case.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc32/ld.abilist:
	Included the new __parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform symbol in the
	ABI list for GLIBC 2.23.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/ld-le.abilist:
	Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/powerpc64/ld.abilist:
	Likewise.
2015-12-03 13:56:13 -02:00
Adhemerval Zanella
56cf276381 powerpc: abort transaction in syscalls
Linux kernel powerpc documentation states issuing a syscall inside a
transaction is not recommended and may lead to undefined behavior. It
also states syscalls does not abort transactoin neither they run in
transactional state.

To avoid side-effects being visible outside transactions, GLIBC with
lock elision enabled will issue a transaction abort instruction just
before all syscalls if hardware supports hardware transactions.
2015-01-12 06:32:08 -05:00
Joseph Myers
9bc6103d04 Include <kernel-features.h> explicitly where required.
This patch makes files using __ASSUME_* macros include
<kernel-features.h> explicitly, rather than relying on some other
header (such as tls.h, lowlevellock.h or pthreadP.h) to include it
implicitly.  (I omitted cases where I've already posted or am testing
the patch that stops the file from needing __ASSUME_* at all.)  This
accords with the general principle of making source files include the
headers for anything they use, and also helps make it safe to remove
<kernel-features.h> includes from any file that doesn't use
__ASSUME_* (some of those may be stray includes left behind after
increasing the minimum kernel version, others may never have been
needed or may have become obsolete after some other change).

Tested x86_64 that the disassembly of installed shared libraries is
unchanged by this patch.

	* nptl/pthread_cond_wait.c: Include <kernel-features.h>.
	* nptl/pthread_rwlock_timedrdlock.c: Likewise.
	* nptl/pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock.c: Likewise.
	* nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/lowlevelrobustlock.c: Likewise.
	* nscd/nscd.c: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/i386/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/sh/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
	* sysdeps/x86_64/nptl/tcb-offsets.sym: Likewise.
2014-06-20 23:24:00 +00:00
Adhemerval Zanella
556f529dab PowerPC: Move powerpc code out of nptl/ subdirectory 2014-06-17 07:54:22 -05:00