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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 19:16:57 +0100
From:   Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: locking/atomic: Introduce atomic_try_cmpxchg()

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 06:51:15PM +0100, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 09:54:46AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> >> > So the first snipped I tested regressed like so:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > 0000000000000000 <T_refcount_inc>:                              0000000000000000 <T_refcount_inc>:
>> >> >    0:   8b 07                   mov    (%rdi),%eax                 0:   8b 17                   mov    (%rdi),%edx
>> >> >    2:   83 f8 ff                cmp    $0xffffffff,%eax            2:   83 fa ff                cmp    $0xffffffff,%edx
>> >> >    5:   74 13                   je     1a <T_refcount_inc+0x1a>    5:   74 1a                   je     21 <T_refcount_inc+0x21>
>> >> >    7:   85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax                   7:   85 d2                   test   %edx,%edx
>> >> >    9:   74 0d                   je     18 <T_refcount_inc+0x18>    9:   74 13                   je     1e <T_refcount_inc+0x1e>
>> >> >    b:   8d 50 01                lea    0x1(%rax),%edx              b:   8d 4a 01                lea    0x1(%rdx),%ecx
>> >> >    e:   f0 0f b1 17             lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi)           e:   89 d0                   mov    %edx,%eax
>> >> >   12:   75 ee                   jne    2 <T_refcount_inc+0x2>     10:   f0 0f b1 0f             lock cmpxchg %ecx,(%rdi)
>> >> >   14:   ff c2                   inc    %edx                       14:   74 04                   je     1a <T_refcount_inc+0x1a>
>> >> >   16:   75 02                   jne    1a <T_refcount_inc+0x1a>   16:   89 c2                   mov    %eax,%edx
>> >> >   18:   0f 0b                   ud2                               18:   eb e8                   jmp    2 <T_refcount_inc+0x2>
>> >> >   1a:   c3                      retq                              1a:   ff c1                   inc    %ecx
>> >> >                                                                   1c:   75 03                   jne    21 <T_refcount_inc+0x21>
>> >> >                                                                   1e:   0f 0b                   ud2
>> >> >                                                                   20:   c3                      retq
>> >> >                                                                   21:   c3                      retq
>> >>
>
>> This seems to help ;)
>>
>> #define try_cmpxchg(ptr, pold, new) __atomic_compare_exchange_n(ptr, pold, new, 0, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST)
>
> That gets me:
>
> 0000000000000000 <T_refcount_inc>:
>    0:   8b 07                   mov    (%rdi),%eax
>    2:   89 44 24 fc             mov    %eax,-0x4(%rsp)
>    6:   8b 44 24 fc             mov    -0x4(%rsp),%eax
>    a:   83 f8 ff                cmp    $0xffffffff,%eax
>    d:   74 1c                   je     2b <T_refcount_inc+0x2b>
>    f:   85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
>   11:   75 07                   jne    1a <T_refcount_inc+0x1a>
>   13:   8b 44 24 fc             mov    -0x4(%rsp),%eax
>   17:   0f 0b                   ud2
>   19:   c3                      retq
>   1a:   8d 50 01                lea    0x1(%rax),%edx
>   1d:   8b 44 24 fc             mov    -0x4(%rsp),%eax
>   21:   f0 0f b1 17             lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi)
>   25:   75 db                   jne    2 <T_refcount_inc+0x2>
>   27:   ff c2                   inc    %edx
>   29:   74 e8                   je     13 <T_refcount_inc+0x13>
>   2b:   c3                      retq
>
>
> Which is even worse... (I did double check it actually compiled)


For me gcc 7.0.1 generates:

0000000000000330 <T_refcount_inc1>:
 330:   55                      push   %rbp
 331:   8b 07                   mov    (%rdi),%eax
 333:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
 336:   83 f8 ff                cmp    $0xffffffff,%eax
 339:   74 12                   je     34d <T_refcount_inc1+0x1d>
 33b:   85 c0                   test   %eax,%eax
 33d:   74 10                   je     34f <T_refcount_inc1+0x1f>
 33f:   8d 50 01                lea    0x1(%rax),%edx
 342:   f0 0f b1 17             lock cmpxchg %edx,(%rdi)
 346:   75 ee                   jne    336 <T_refcount_inc1+0x6>
 348:   83 fa ff                cmp    $0xffffffff,%edx
 34b:   74 04                   je     351 <T_refcount_inc1+0x21>
 34d:   5d                      pop    %rbp
 34e:   c3                      retq
 34f:   31 c0                   xor    %eax,%eax
 351:   0f 0b                   ud2
 353:   5d                      pop    %rbp
 354:   c3                      retq

with:

if (!success) \
  *_old = __old; \

0000000000000320 <T_refcount_inc1>:
 320:   8b 0f                   mov    (%rdi),%ecx
 322:   55                      push   %rbp
 323:   48 89 e5                mov    %rsp,%rbp
 326:   83 f9 ff                cmp    $0xffffffff,%ecx
 329:   74 2d                   je     358 <T_refcount_inc1+0x38>
 32b:   85 c9                   test   %ecx,%ecx
 32d:   74 25                   je     354 <T_refcount_inc1+0x34>
 32f:   8d 71 01                lea    0x1(%rcx),%esi
 332:   89 c8                   mov    %ecx,%eax
 334:   f0 0f b1 37             lock cmpxchg %esi,(%rdi)
 338:   89 c2                   mov    %eax,%edx
 33a:   74 20                   je     35c <T_refcount_inc1+0x3c>
 33c:   83 fa ff                cmp    $0xffffffff,%edx
 33f:   74 17                   je     358 <T_refcount_inc1+0x38>
 341:   85 d2                   test   %edx,%edx
 343:   74 0f                   je     354 <T_refcount_inc1+0x34>
 345:   8d 72 01                lea    0x1(%rdx),%esi
 348:   89 d0                   mov    %edx,%eax
 34a:   f0 0f b1 37             lock cmpxchg %esi,(%rdi)
 34e:   74 0a                   je     35a <T_refcount_inc1+0x3a>
 350:   89 c2                   mov    %eax,%edx
 352:   eb e8                   jmp    33c <T_refcount_inc1+0x1c>
 354:   31 c9                   xor    %ecx,%ecx
 356:   0f 0b                   ud2
 358:   5d                      pop    %rbp
 359:   c3                      retq
 35a:   89 d1                   mov    %edx,%ecx
 35c:   83 fe ff                cmp    $0xffffffff,%esi
 35f:   74 f5                   je     356 <T_refcount_inc1+0x36>
 361:   5d                      pop    %rbp
 362:   c3                      retq


with __atomic_compare_exchange_n:

exactly the same as the original code.


But I don't have an answer for runtime patching of LOCK.
Looks like something to fix in gcc.

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