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>
This patch adds several new tunables to control the behavior of
elision on supported platforms[1]. Since elision now depends
on tunables, we should always *compile* with elision enabled,
and leave the code disabled, but available for runtime
selection. This gives us *much* better compile-time testing of
the existing code to avoid bit-rot[2].
Tested on ppc, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x and x86_64.
[1] This part of the patch was initially proposed by
Paul Murphy but was "staled" because the framework have changed
since the patch was originally proposed:
https://patchwork.sourceware.org/patch/10342/
[2] This part of the patch was inititally proposed as a RFC by
Carlos O'Donnell. Make sense to me integrate this on the patch:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00335.html
* elf/dl-tunables.list: Add elision parameters.
* manual/tunables.texi: Add entries about elision tunable.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-conf.c:
Add callback functions to dynamically enable/disable elision.
Add multiple callbacks functions to set elision parameters.
Deleted __libc_enable_secure check.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/elision-conf.c: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/elision-conf.c: Likewise.
* configure: Regenerated.
* configure.ac: Option enable_lock_elision was deleted.
* config.h.in: ENABLE_LOCK_ELISION flag was deleted.
* config.make.in: Remove references to enable_lock_elision.
* manual/install.texi: Elision configure option was removed.
* INSTALL: Regenerated to remove enable_lock_elision.
* nptl/Makefile:
Disable elision so it can verify error case for destroying a mutex.
* sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/elide.h:
Cleanup ENABLE_LOCK_ELISION check.
Deleted macros for the case when ENABLE_LOCK_ELISION was not defined.
* sysdeps/s390/configure: Regenerated.
* sysdeps/s390/configure.ac: Remove references to enable_lock_elision..
* nptl/tst-mutex8.c:
Deleted all #ifndef ENABLE_LOCK_ELISION from the test.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/sysdep.h:
Deleted all ENABLE_LOCK_ELISION checks.
* sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/powerpc/sysdep.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/s390/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes-arch.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/force-elision.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/elision-conf.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/force-elision.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/lowlevellock.h: Likewise.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/Makefile: Remove references to
enable-lock-elision.
Reviewed-by: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch adds support for lock elision using ISA 2.07 hardware
transactional memory for rwlocks. The logic is similar to the
one presented in pthread_mutex lock elision.
This patch adds support for lock elision using ISA 2.07 hardware
transactional memory instructions for pthread_mutex primitives.
Similar to s390 version, the for elision logic defined in
'force-elision.h' is only enabled if ENABLE_LOCK_ELISION is defined.
Also, the lock elision code should be able to be built even with
a compiler that does not provide HTM support with builtins.
However I have noted the performance is sub-optimal due scheduling
pressures.
