The patch for the problem was created
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-1929

Evgueni

On 10/20/06, Evgueni Brevnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/19/06, Artem Aliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eugeny,
>
> > The problem can be easily fixed by changing int16 to unit16 in
> > atomic16_dec. Do you think this is accaptable way to fix the problem.
>
>
> > BTW, could somebody explain why 16-bit atomic operation is used for
> > 32-bit value?
> The suspend_request could be 16bit value some time ago.
> Could you please file a JIRA issue with a patch.
> It looks reasonable to replace  inc16 by inc32 as a fix.

Oh, I see. Sure, I'll provide a patch soon....
Evgueni
>
>
> Thanks
> Artem
>
>
>
>
> On 10/19/06, Evgueni Brevnov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Today, I had several hangs of cunit tests. It turned out to be
> > infinite cycling in
> > while loop of atomic16_inc/atomic16_dec (see
> > vm/thread/src/thread_native_suspend.c)
> >
> > Here is a snip of assembler code produced by msvc for atomic16_dec:
> >
> > call        port_atomic_cas16 (10004A90h)
> > add         esp,0Ch
> > movzx       edx,ax <-----------------------------zero extention
> > movsx       eax,word ptr [old_value] <----sign extention
> > cmp         edx,eax
> > je          atomic16_inc+45h (10004A15h)
> >
> > The problem can be easily fixed by changing int16 to unit16 in
> > atomic16_dec. Do you think this is accaptable way to fix the problem.
> >
> > BTW, could somebody explain why 16-bit atomic operation is used for
> > 32-bit value?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Evgueni
> >
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