I've looked into this on ThunderX2. The arm64 code generated for the
atomic_[add|sub] accesses of ctx->notify_me doesn't contain any
memory barriers. It is just plain ldaxr/stlxr.
>From my understanding this is not sufficient for SMP sync.
If I read this comment correct:
void
Debug files for aio-posix generated on 18.04 on ThunderX2.
Compiler:
gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)
Distro:
Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
** Attachment added: "aio-posix.tar.xz"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1805256/+attachment/5293619/+files/aio-posix.tar.xz
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 11:45:19AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 02/10/19 11:23, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > I've tried to verify me theory with this patch and didn't run into the
> > issue for ~500 iterations (usually I would trigger the issue ~20
> > iterations).
>
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:06:20PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 02/10/19 11:23, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > I've looked into this on ThunderX2. The arm64 code generated for the
> > atomic_[add|sub] accesses of ctx->notify_me doesn't contain any
> > memory barriers. It i
On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 11:15:04AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 09/10/19 10:02, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > I'm still not sure what the actual issue is here, but could it be some bad
> > interaction between the notify_me and the list_lock? The are both 4 byte
> > and side-by-s
On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:18:18AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 11/10/19 08:05, Jan Glauber wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 11:15:04AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >>> ...but if I bump notify_me size to uint64_t the issue goes away.
> >>
> >> Ouch.
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 04:58:30PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/10/19 16:44, dann frazier wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 01:06:20PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> >> On 02/10/19 11:23, Jan Glauber wrote:
> >>> I've looked into this on Thund
