On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:35:43 GMT, Mat Carter <[email protected]> wrote:

> With -UseLSE the Starvation test on Windows ARM64 timeouts close to 100% 
> whereas this only happens on Linux ARM64 on larger machines with many cores. 
> The issue is that C2 outputs an LDR following the CAS in LinkedTransferQueue 
> which can execute before the STLXR breaking the Dekker protocol.
> 
> Replacing the LDR with LADR by using getAcquire solves the issue as it won't 
> be reordered before the STLXR.  This does impact the +UseLSE case as the LADR 
> was not necessary and is slightly more expensive than LDR.  But to handle 
> this case would require larger changes to Hotspot
> 
> Starvation test passes on Windows ARM64 and Linux ARM64, with no regressions 
> on tier1
> 
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I don't think this fix is correct, the fact that we implement acquire loads 
using `ldar` is purely accidental. If, in the future, we change it so that 
acquire loads are lowered to `ldapr` instructions, then it breaks again.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/31465#issuecomment-4711185529

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