Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=53310&edit=1

 ID:                 53310
 User updated by:    stefan at whocares dot de
 Reported by:        stefan at whocares dot de
 Summary:            fpm_atomic.h uses SPARC v9 only code, doesn't work
                     on v8
 Status:             Wont fix
 Type:               Feature/Change Request
 Package:            FPM related
 Operating System:   Linux (Debian for Sparc)
 PHP Version:        5.3.3
 Assigned To:        fat
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

Of course you may ask: because I'm porting PHP to the ReadyNAS platform
which 

happens to use a SPARC v8 compatible CPU and thus *needs* the v8
instruction set.

Seeing that you've already made up your mind though, so I guess there's
nothing 

more to add here. Makes me wonder why I can't get a response in > 24
hours as to 

my patch but you can't wait for me to answer for like 4 hours.


Previous Comments:
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[2010-11-16 23:05:04] f...@php.net

we've decided sparc < v9 won't be supported. I've just updated the
source code to 

warn specificaly about this.

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[2010-11-16 23:02:38] f...@php.net

Automatic comment from SVN on behalf of fat
Revision: http://svn.php.net/viewvc/?view=revision&amp;revision=305417
Log: - Fixed #53310 (sparc &lt; v9 won't is not supported)

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[2010-11-16 19:48:36] sriram dot natarajan at gmail dot com

May I know as to why you need to compile with v8 ? compiling with v9
does not 

automatically make your application 64-bit . if that is the reason you
want to 

choose -v8 in here.



v8 sparc instruction is decade old - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC
and is not 

being used in any hardware. so, i see no reason as to why we need to use
/ support 

this specific instruction set.

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[2010-11-15 03:05:11] stefan at whocares dot de

Well, I blatantly copied from PostgreSQL's s_lock.h and came up with
this:





diff -Nau fpm_atomic.h.org fpm_atomic.h 

--- fpm_atomic.h.org    2009-12-14 09:18:53.000000000 +0000

+++ fpm_atomic.h        2010-11-15 01:50:31.000000000 +0000

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@

 #endif /* defined (__GNUC__) &&... */

 

 #elif ( __sparc__ || __sparc ) /* Marcin Ochab */

-

+#if (__sparc_v9__)

 #if (__arch64__ || __arch64)

 typedef uint64_t                    atomic_uint_t;

 typedef volatile atomic_uint_t      atomic_t;

@@ -118,7 +118,23 @@

 }

 /* }}} */

 #endif

+#else /* sparcv9 */

+typedef uint32_t                    atomic_uint_t;

+typedef volatile atomic_uint_t      atomic_t;

 

+static inline int atomic_cas_32(atomic_t *lock) /* {{{ */

+{

+               register atomic_uint_t _res;

+                       __asm__ __volatile__("ldstub [%2], %0" : "=r"(_res), 

"+m"(*lock) : "r"(lock) : "memory");

+                               return (int) _res;

+}

+/* }}} */

+

+static inline atomic_uint_t atomic_cmp_set(atomic_t *lock,
atomic_uint_t old, 

atomic_uint_t set) /* {{{ */

+{

+               return (atomic_cas_32(lock)==0);

+}

+/* }}} */

 #else

 

 #error unsupported processor. please write a patch and send it to me





Rationale:

If I'm reading the original code correctly, there's no actual locking
done but 

instead the code only tests whether it could acquire a lock. 'ldstub'
works such 

that it returns the current value of the memory region specified and
sets it to 

all '1' afterwards. Thus, if the return value is '-1' the lock was
already set 

by another process whereas if it's '0' we acquired the lock. Well, at
least in 

my certainly flawed logic ;) Since ldstub is atomic I didn't see a need
to 

explicitly "lock;" the code.



The patch should leave the 'cas' code intact when being compiled on v9
type 

SPARC systems. Tested (for successful compilation only!) on Debian
(etch) using 

gcc 3.3.5. Thus I believe further testing is necessary to verify this is


actually working.



Well, please test and incorporate if you feel the code is doing what
it's 

supposed to do.

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[2010-11-15 00:53:49] f...@php.net

As the sparc documentation says 

(http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/atomic_sparc/#CAS):

The SPARC v9 manual introduced the newest atomic instruction: compare
and swap 

(cas)



I don't know how to fix this right now. If you know someone who can,
he's 

welcome. I've already asked for help.



wait and see

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