Thanks Matt for thinking of the bug queue. I wonder how many others are in
there that we could fix. I'm not suggesting that we take another month -
only that we grab some low-hanging fruit before committing. Thoughts?

 

John

 

From: HIRD Matthew [mailto:matthew.h...@uk.thalesgroup.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 5:47 AM
To: Nick Wagner; Jim Marshall
Cc: John Calcote; openslp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Openslp-devel] slptool hangs on AIX?

 

Guys

 

this fix would be a good one to get in -
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3582209&group_id=1730&atid=
101730>
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3582209&group_id=1730&atid=1
01730

 

looks like the code is there but it's not being called properly when not in
debug mode. 

 

any chance of getting it in for 2.0?

 

cheers

Matt

 

From: Nick Wagner [mailto:ne...@wingedbeast.org] 
Sent: 02 November 2012 02:08
To: Jim Marshall
Cc: John Calcote; openslp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Openslp-devel] slptool hangs on AIX?

 

I've added Jim's AIX building patches, and I tweaked
openslp.misc/debian/init.d to have the " -- -p /var/run/$NAME.pid" set
correctly. Version 1694.

 

Other than that, I think the only potentially outstanding thing is Gavin's
code to handle network changes.  Which I have not looked at, and will
probably require more testing.  Does the group want to look at them, or move
on with 2.0?  Or are there other patches/bugs we've missed?

 

--Nick

 

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Jim Marshall
<jim.marsh...@wbemsolutions.com> wrote:

Are there any other changes that are being waited on? I've run our tests and
they all work, so I would like to propose we roll out 2.0.

Thanks

John Calcote wrote:

Fixed in revision 1693 - SLP atomics now return the correct (new) value on
AIX.

 

John

 

From: John Calcote [mailto:john.calc...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:14 PM
To: Jim Marshall
Cc: openslp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Openslp-devel] slptool hangs on AIX?

 

Hi Jim,

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Jim Marshall
<jim.marsh...@wbemsolutions.com> wrote:

Hi,
 Been testing the AIX build I have and the agent is working fine but when I
invoke slptool it basically hangs. Stepping into the code we get to
libslp_handle.c line 66

if (SLPAtomicInc(&s_OpenSLPHandleCount) == 1)

The SLPAtomicInc function does this on AIX:

return (intptr_t)fetch_and_add((atomic_p)pn, 1);

This is the cause of the hang, because fetch_and_add "[...] returns the
original value of the variable" (from the man page), in this case '0'. When
this happens the code enters a while loop

 

 

Well, that's kind of useless, isn't it? It should be replaced with:

 

   return (intptr_t)fetch_and_add((atomic_p)pn, 1) + 1;

 

The idea here is to atomically increment the value stored at pn. If two
threads try to do it at once, then they could both read the value, increment
it and both write the same value back out. The use of atomic_add should
cause both threads to actually increment the value, regardless of how
in-sync they are on their attempts to update the value.

 

It's only a side-effect (that we take advantage of) that most atomic incs
return the newly updated value. Since the AIX version returns the original
value, and we're guaranteed to read/update/write atomically when we add 1 to
that original value, then we can assume that the value we get back PLUS ONE
is our actual desired return value.

 

I'll fix it.

 

John

 

-- 

Jim Marshall
Sr. Software Engineer
 <http://ws-inc.com/> WS
 


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