On 26/09/20 20:42 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
Glibc 2.32 adds a global variable that says whether the process is
single-threaded. We can use this to decide whether to elide atomic
operations, as a more precise and reliable indicator than
__gthread_active_p.

This means that guard variables for statics and reference counting in
shared_ptr can use less expensive, non-atomic ops even in processes that
are linked to libpthread, as long as no threads have been created yet.
It also means that we switch to using atomics if libpthread gets loaded
later via dlopen (this still isn't supported in general, for other
reasons).

We can't use __libc_single_threaded to replace __gthread_active_p
everywhere. If we replaced the uses of __gthread_active_p in std::mutex
then we would elide the pthread_mutex_lock in the code below, but not
the pthread_mutex_unlock:

 std::mutex m;
 m.lock();            // pthread_mutex_lock
 std::thread t([]{}); // __libc_single_threaded = false
 t.join();
 m.unlock();          // pthread_mutex_unlock

We need the lock and unlock to use the same "is threading enabled"
predicate, and similarly for init/destroy pairs for mutexes and
condition variables, so that we don't try to release resources that were
never acquired.

There are other places that could use __libc_single_threaded, such as
_Sp_locker in src/c++11/shared_ptr.cc and locale init functions, but
they can be changed later.

libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog:

        PR libstdc++/96817
        * include/ext/atomicity.h (__gnu_cxx::__is_single_threaded()):
        New function wrapping __libc_single_threaded if available.
        (__exchange_and_add_dispatch, __atomic_add_dispatch): Use it.
        * libsupc++/guard.cc (__cxa_guard_acquire, __cxa_guard_abort)
        (__cxa_guard_release): Likewise.
        * testsuite/18_support/96817.cc: New test.


The new test was broken, fixed with this.

Tested powerpc64le-linux, with glibc 2.31 and 2.32. Committed to trunk.


commit 1ad08b64cea51d3cb989a1a176baeb8a18071231
Author: Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Oct 2 21:10:55 2020

    libstdc++: Fix testcase by using terminate handler
    
    This test was supposed to verify that when __libc_single_threaded is
    available we successfully detect recursive static initialization even
    when linked to libpthread. But I forgot to that when recursive init is
    detected, we terminate, and so the test fails.
    
    This adds a terminate handler that exits cleanly, so the test passes
    when recursive init is detected.
    
    libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog:
    
            * testsuite/18_support/96817.cc: Use terminate handler that
            calls _Exit(0).

diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/18_support/96817.cc b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/18_support/96817.cc
index 4c4da40afa9..19399c473ef 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/18_support/96817.cc
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/testsuite/18_support/96817.cc
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
 
 // PR libstdc++/96817
 
+#include <exception>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+
 int init()
 {
 #if __has_include(<sys/single_threaded.h>)
@@ -32,8 +35,11 @@ int init()
   return 0;
 }
 
+void clean_terminate() { _Exit(0); }
+
 int
 main (int argc, char **argv)
 {
+  std::set_terminate(clean_terminate);
   init();
 }

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