Oh, you were one step ahead of me, I didn't understand it on first read of your email. Need more coffee..

On 01/31/2017 05:03 PM, Konstantin Knizhnik wrote:
I inspected code of pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32_impl and didn't sync
in prologue:

(dbx) listi pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32_impl
> [no sync instruction]

and if I compile this fuctions standalone, I get the following assembler
code:

.pg_atomic_compare_exchange_u32_impl:   # 0x0000000000000000 (H.4.NO_SYMBOL)
         stdu       SP,-128(SP)
         std        r3,176(SP)
         std        r4,184(SP)
         std        r5,192(SP)
         ld         r0,192(SP)
         stw        r0,192(SP)
        sync
         ld         r4,176(SP)
         ld         r3,184(SP)
         lwz        r0,192(SP)
         extsw      r0,r0
         lwa        r5,0(r3)
> ...

sync is here!

Ok, so, the 'sync' instruction gets lost somehow. That "standalone" assemly version looks slightly different in other ways too, you perhaps used different optimization levels, or it looks different when it's inlined into the caller. Not sure which version of the function gdb would show, when it's a "static inline" function. Would be good to check the disassembly of LWLockAttemptLock(), to see if the 'sync' is there.

Certainly seems like a compiler bug, though.

- Heikki



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