Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:10:44AM +0100, Bert Wesarg wrote:
>> Fix the double-check locking[1] by defining the cls_initialized member to
>> volatile.
>>
>> Greetings
>>
>> Bert Wesarg
>>
>> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-checked_locking
> Can you explain how the Java example from this page applies to the code
> in Open MPI? cls_initialized is set only after class is fully
> initialized and usable.
Sure:
in opal_object.c:opal_class_initialize():
if (1 == cls->cls_initialized) {
return;
}
opal_atomic_lock(&class_lock);
/* If another thread initializing this same class came in at
roughly the same time, it may have gotten the lock and
initialized. So check again. */
if (1 == cls->cls_initialized) {
opal_atomic_unlock(&class_lock);
return;
}
the compiler can optimize the second if check away, without being declared
as volatile.
Bert
>
>>
>
>> ---
>>
>> opal/class/opal_object.h | 2 +-
>> 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --quilt old/opal/class/opal_object.h new/opal/class/opal_object.h
>> --- old/opal/class/opal_object.h
>> +++ new/opal/class/opal_object.h
>> @@ -148,11 +148,11 @@ typedef void (*opal_destruct_t) (opal_ob
>> struct opal_class_t {
>> const char *cls_name; /**< symbolic name for class */
>> opal_class_t *cls_parent; /**< parent class descriptor */
>> opal_construct_t cls_construct; /**< class constructor */
>> opal_destruct_t cls_destruct; /**< class destructor */
>> - int cls_initialized; /**< is class initialized */
>> + volatile int cls_initialized; /**< is class initialized */
>> int cls_depth; /**< depth of class hierarchy tree */
>> opal_construct_t *cls_construct_array;
>> /**< array of parent class constructors
>> */
>> opal_destruct_t *cls_destruct_array;
>> /**< array of parent class destructors
>> */
>
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