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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2019-09-06 16:57:22 -0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2019-10-05 11:58:14 -0700
commitdaebf24a8e8c6064cba3a330db9fe9376a137d2c (patch)
tree6a2e8a7e9cef21bece8ca6a31de088321af828fb /tools/memory-model
parent54ecb8f7028c5eb3d740bb82b0f1d90f2df63c5c (diff)
tools/memory-model: Fix data race detection for unordered store and load
Currently the Linux Kernel Memory Model gives an incorrect response for the following litmus test: C plain-WWC {} P0(int *x) { WRITE_ONCE(*x, 2); } P1(int *x, int *y) { int r1; int r2; int r3; r1 = READ_ONCE(*x); if (r1 == 2) { smp_rmb(); r2 = *x; } smp_rmb(); r3 = READ_ONCE(*x); WRITE_ONCE(*y, r3 - 1); } P2(int *x, int *y) { int r4; r4 = READ_ONCE(*y); if (r4 > 0) WRITE_ONCE(*x, 1); } exists (x=2 /\ 1:r2=2 /\ 2:r4=1) The memory model says that the plain read of *x in P1 races with the WRITE_ONCE(*x) in P2. The problem is that we have a write W and a read R related by neither fre or rfe, but rather W ->coe W' ->rfe R, where W' is an intermediate write (the WRITE_ONCE() in P0). In this situation there is no particular ordering between W and R, so either a wr-vis link from W to R or an rw-xbstar link from R to W would prove that the accesses aren't concurrent. But the LKMM only looks for a wr-vis link, which is equivalent to assuming that W must execute before R. This is not necessarily true on non-multicopy-atomic systems, as the WWC pattern demonstrates. This patch changes the LKMM to accept either a wr-vis or a reverse rw-xbstar link as a proof of non-concurrency. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
index ea2ff4b94074..2a9b4fe4a84e 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
+++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ empty (wr-incoh | rw-incoh | ww-incoh) as plain-coherence
(* Actual races *)
let ww-nonrace = ww-vis & ((Marked * W) | rw-xbstar) & ((W * Marked) | wr-vis)
let ww-race = (pre-race & co) \ ww-nonrace
-let wr-race = (pre-race & (co? ; rf)) \ wr-vis
+let wr-race = (pre-race & (co? ; rf)) \ wr-vis \ rw-xbstar^-1
let rw-race = (pre-race & fr) \ rw-xbstar
flag ~empty (ww-race | wr-race | rw-race) as data-race