The compiler I have is not built with the correct arch which seems to be
the problem. If i pass -march=armv7-a  compiler option during build the
assertion doesn't fail.
Thank you Ola!

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 4:19 AM, Ola Liljedahl <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I downloaded the same GCC version from
> http://releases.linaro.org/14.04/components/toolchain/binaries/
> $
> /opt/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
> --version
> arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (crosstool-NG linaro-1.13.1-4.8-2014.04 - Linaro
> GCC 4.8-2014.04) 4.8.3 20140401 (prerelease)
> Same version but the output is slightly different. Did you crop your
> output?
>
> $
> /opt/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc
> -dM -E - </dev/null | grep __GCC_ATOMIC_LLONG_LOCK_FREE
> #define __GCC_ATOMIC_LLONG_LOCK_FREE 2
> As expected, GCC for ARMv7a supports atomic 64-bit operations without any
> helper locks.
>
> cc1 is where this symbol seems to be defined by the compiler. Do we have
> the same version?
> $ ls -l
> /opt/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux/libexec/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.8.3/cc1
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 minecraft minecraft 14093800 apr 16  2014
> /opt/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-4.8-2014.04_linux/libexec/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.8.3/cc1
>
> On 24 March 2015 at 05:26, Sumith Dev Vojini <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>  $ gcc --version
>> gcc (Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04) 4.8.3 20140401 (prerelease)
>>
>> $ gcc -dM -E - < /dev/null | grep __GCC_ATOMIC_LLONG_LOCK_FREE
>> #define __GCC_ATOMIC_LLONG_LOCK_FREE 1
>>
>> Seems like __GCC ATOMIC_LLONG_LOCK_FREE is defined to be 1 and the lock
>> variable in odp_atomic_u64_s is included if it is less than 2.
>>
> There's something wrong with your setup.
>
> Without lock-less support for 64-bit atomics, performance will suffer. Get
> a compiler that has working support for 64-bit atomics on ARM.
>
>
>>
>> I also tried on PPCe500v2 cores which also failed the assertion.
>>
> Yes, e500 is 32-bit POWER architecture so does not support 64-bit atomics
> natively. There is no corresponding lwarx/stwcx paired unlike ARM. It
> should work fine on e5500/e6500 I assume.
>
>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Ola Liljedahl <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 23 March 2015 at 14:43, Sumith Dev Vojini <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 5:31 AM, Ola Liljedahl <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 20 March 2015 at 19:15, Mike Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 20 March 2015 at 14:10, Sumith Dev Vojini <[email protected]>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> While building ODP(v1.0.0) I encountered an assertion on the size of
>>>>>>> tick_buf_t in timer.c. The structure is
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> typedef struct tick_buf_s {
>>>>>>>          odp_atomic_u64_t exp_tck;/* Expiration tick or TMO_xxx */
>>>>>>>          odp_buffer_t tmo_buf;/* ODP_BUFFER_INVALID if timer not
>>>>>>> active */
>>>>>>>  #ifdef TB_NEEDS_PAD
>>>>>>>          uint32_t pad;/* Need to be able to access padding for
>>>>>>> successful CAS */
>>>>>>>  #endif
>>>>>>>  } tick_buf_t
>>>>>>>  #ifdef ODP_ATOMIC_U128
>>>>>>>  ODP_ALIGNED(16) /* 16-byte atomic operations need properly aligned
>>>>>>> addresses */
>>>>>>> ;
>>>>>>> _ODP_STATIC_ASSERT(sizeof(tick_buf_t) == 16, "sizeof(tick_buf_t) ==
>>>>>>> 16");
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> odp_atomic_u64_t is of type struct odp_atomic_u64_s
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> struct odp_atomic_u64_s {
>>>>>>>         uint64_t v; /**< Actual storage for the atomic variable */
>>>>>>> #if __GCC_ATOMIC_LLONG_LOCK_FREE < 2
>>>>>>>         /* Some architectures do not support lock-free operations on
>>>>>>> 64-bit
>>>>>>>          * data types. We use a spin lock to ensure atomicity. */
>>>>>>>         char lock; /**< Spin lock (if needed) used to ensure atomic
>>>>>>> access */
>>>>>>> #endif
>>>>>>> } ODP_ALIGNED(sizeof(uint64_t)); /* Enforce alignement! */;
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So the systems which cannot do atomic 64 bit operations will have
>>>>>>> lock variable defined which increases the size of the that structure
>>>>>>> odp_atomic_u64_s to 16 bytes due to the alignment requirements and
>>>>>>> the assertion fails since tick_buf_s has two more variables
>>>>>>> increasing its size to 24 bytes.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Since the size and especially alignment is important to the timer
>>>>> implementation, the best fix is to ensure that odp_atomic_64_t is actually
>>>>> only 64 bits. This could be achieved by moving the lock variable out from
>>>>> the atomic variable into a separate array (equivalent to how timer.c is
>>>>> doing it when the target does not support 128-bit atomics). Each 64-bit
>>>>> atomic does not need its own lock variable, that's mostly a waste of 
>>>>> space.
>>>>> Create a N-to-1 mapping to a smaller set of spin locks and use them when
>>>>> accessing the 64-bit atomic variable.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alternatively, let timer.c handle all synchronization internally and
>>>>> use uint64_t instead of odp_atomic_u64_t.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW: which target is this that does not support 64-bit atomics
>>>>> natively?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I am working on Freescale's LS1021A with cortex A7.
>>>>>
>>>> Cortex-A7 is ARMv7a like Cortex-A15.
>>> The current atomics and timer implementation works with ARMv7a, with
>>> native 64-bit atomics support (using load/store exclusive paired). Why
>>> doesn't this for work for you? I was expecting you to use something based
>>> on PPC32 which doesn't support 64-bit atomics.
>>>
>>> -- Ola
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks Sumith
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Could you make a bug report ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://bugs.linaro.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=OpenDataPlane
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>> Sumith Dev
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Mike Holmes
>>>>>> Technical Manager - Linaro Networking Group
>>>>>> Linaro.org <http://www.linaro.org/> *│ *Open source software for ARM
>>>>>> SoCs
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards
>>>> SD
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards
>> SD
>>
>
>


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