From: Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev <lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org>
To: "Ondřej Surý" <ondrej@sury.org>
Cc: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org
Subject: Re: [lttng-dev] [PATCH 6/7] Fix: uatomic_or() need retyping to uintptr_t in rculfhash.c
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 10:45:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <023403bf-baac-c0a0-30b2-0f020ee17fba@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4b783ec-6d57-e658-7ac9-84e5a996b8b3@efficios.com>
On 2023-03-21 10:44, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> On 2023-03-21 06:15, Ondřej Surý wrote:
>>
>>> On 20. 3. 2023, at 19:31, Mathieu Desnoyers
>>> <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2023-03-17 17:37, Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev wrote:
>>>> When adding REMOVED_FLAG to the pointers in the rculfhash
>>>> implementation, retype the generic pointer to uintptr_t to fix the
>>>> compiler error.
>>>
>>> What is the compiler error ? I'm wondering whether the expected choice
>>> to match the rest of this file's content would be to use "uintptr_t
>>> *" or "unsigned long *" ?
>>
>> This is the error:
>>
>> rculfhash.c:1201:2: error: address argument to atomic operation must
>> be a pointer to integer ('struct cds_lfht_node **' invalid)
>> uatomic_or(&node->next, REMOVED_FLAG);
>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> ../include/urcu/uatomic.h:60:8: note: expanded from macro 'uatomic_or'
>> (void)__atomic_or_fetch((addr), (mask), __ATOMIC_RELAXED)
>> ^ ~~~~~~
>> rculfhash.c:1444:3: error: address argument to atomic operation must
>> be a pointer to integer ('struct cds_lfht_node **' invalid)
>> uatomic_or(&fini_bucket->next, REMOVED_FLAG);
>> ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> ../include/urcu/uatomic.h:60:8: note: expanded from macro 'uatomic_or'
>> (void)__atomic_or_fetch((addr), (mask), __ATOMIC_RELAXED)
>> ^ ~~~~~~
>>
>> uintptr_t is defined as "unsigned integer type capable of holding a
>> pointer to void" while unsigned long is at least 32-bit;
>>
>> I guess that works in a practise, but using unsigned long to retype
>> the pointers might blow up (thinking of x32 which I know
>> little about, but it's kind of hybrid architecture, isn't it?)
>
> x32 uses 4 bytes for unsigned long, uintptr_t, and void * size. So even
> that architecture is OK with casting pointer to unsigned long.
>
> I agree with you that uintptr_t is the semantically correct type, but it
> should come as a separate change across the urcu code base: currently
> there are many places where void * is cast to unsigned long to do
> bitwise operations.
>
> I therefore recommend to use unsigned long here to stay similar to the
> rest of the code base, and keep the transition from unsigned long to
> uintptr_t for the future, as it is not an immediate issue we have to
> address.
I forgot to mention: you should add the compiler error to the commit
message.
You should also explain why this was not an issue until now. It's
probably related to the introduced use of __atomic builtins.
Thanks,
Mathieu
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
>
>>
>> Ondrej
>> --
>> Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
>> ondrej@sury.org
>>
>
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2023-03-17 21:37 [lttng-dev] [PATCH 0/7] Replace the custom code with gcc/clang __atomic builtins Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 1/7] Require __atomic builtins to build Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 2/7] Use gcc __atomic builtis for <urcu/uatomic.h> implementation Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:03 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:28 ` Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
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2023-03-21 20:26 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-22 8:24 ` Duncan Sands via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 3/7] Use __atomic_thread_fence() for cmm_barrier() Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
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2023-03-20 18:14 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 4/7] Replace the internal pointer manipulation with __atomic builtins Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:25 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 5/7] Use __atomic builtins to implement CMM_{LOAD, STORE}_SHARED Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:28 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 6/7] Fix: uatomic_or() need retyping to uintptr_t in rculfhash.c Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-20 18:31 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-21 10:15 ` Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
2023-03-21 14:44 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev
2023-03-21 14:45 ` Mathieu Desnoyers via lttng-dev [this message]
2023-03-17 21:37 ` [lttng-dev] [PATCH 7/7] Experiment: Add explicit memory barrier in free_completion() Ondřej Surý via lttng-dev
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