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Issues were noted by Bruce Evans and are present on all architectures. On i386, a counter fetch should use atomic read of 64bit value, otherwise carry from the increment on other CPU could be lost for the given fetch, making error of 2^32. If 64bit read (cmpxchg8b) is not available on the machine, it cannot be SMP and it is enough to disable preemption around read to avoid the split read. On x86 the counter increment is not atomic on purpose, which makes it possible for the store of the incremented result to override just zeroed per-cpu slot. The effect would be a counter going off by arbitrary value after zeroing. Perform the counter zeroing on the same processor which does the increments, making the operations mutually exclusive. On i386, same as for the fetching, if the cmpxchg8b is not available, machine is not SMP and we disable preemption for zeroing. PowerPC64 is treated the same as amd64. For other architectures, the changes made to allow the compilation to succeed, without fixing the issues with zeroing or fetching. It should be possible to handle them by using the 64bit loads and stores atomic WRT preemption (assuming the architectures also converted from using critical sections to proper asm). If architecture does not provide the facility, using global (spin) mutex would be non-optimal but working solution. Noted by: bde Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation |
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