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31 // This group consists of all TM methods that synchronize via just a single
32 // global lock (or ownership record).
33 struct gl_mg
: public method_group
35 static const gtm_word LOCK_BIT
= (~(gtm_word
)0 >> 1) + 1;
36 // We can't use the full bitrange because ~0 in gtm_thread::shared_state has
38 static const gtm_word VERSION_MAX
= (~(gtm_word
)0 >> 1) - 1;
39 static bool is_locked(gtm_word l
) { return l
& LOCK_BIT
; }
40 static gtm_word
set_locked(gtm_word l
) { return l
| LOCK_BIT
; }
41 static gtm_word
clear_locked(gtm_word l
) { return l
& ~LOCK_BIT
; }
43 // The global ownership record.
44 // No tail-padding necessary (the virtual functions aren't used frequently).
45 atomic
<gtm_word
> orec
__attribute__((aligned(HW_CACHELINE_SIZE
)));
49 // This store is only executed while holding the serial lock, so relaxed
50 // memory order is sufficient here.
51 orec
.store(0, memory_order_relaxed
);
53 virtual void fini() { }
59 // The global lock, write-through TM method.
60 // Acquires the orec eagerly before the first write, and then writes through.
61 // Reads abort if the global orec's version number changed or if it is locked.
62 // Currently, writes require undo-logging to prevent deadlock between the
63 // serial lock and the global orec (writer txn acquires orec, reader txn
64 // upgrades to serial and waits for all other txns, writer tries to upgrade to
65 // serial too but cannot, writer cannot abort either, deadlock). We could
66 // avoid this if the serial lock would allow us to prevent other threads from
67 // going to serial mode, but this probably is too much additional complexity
68 // just to optimize this TM method.
69 // gtm_thread::shared_state is used to store a transaction's current
70 // snapshot time (or commit time). The serial lock uses ~0 for inactive
71 // transactions and 0 for active ones. Thus, we always have a meaningful
72 // timestamp in shared_state that can be used to implement quiescence-based
73 // privatization safety. This even holds if a writing transaction has the
74 // lock bit set in its shared_state because this is fine for both the serial
75 // lock (the value will be smaller than ~0) and privatization safety (we
76 // validate that no other update transaction comitted before we acquired the
77 // orec, so we have the most recent timestamp and no other transaction can
78 // commit until we have committed).
79 // However, we therefore depend on shared_state not being modified by the
80 // serial lock during upgrades to serial mode, which is ensured by
81 // gtm_thread::serialirr_mode by not calling gtm_rwlock::write_upgrade_finish
82 // before we have committed or rolled back.
83 class gl_wt_dispatch
: public abi_dispatch
86 static void pre_write(const void *addr
, size_t len
,
87 gtm_thread
*tx
= gtm_thr())
89 gtm_word v
= tx
->shared_state
.load(memory_order_relaxed
);
90 if (unlikely(!gl_mg::is_locked(v
)))
92 // Check for and handle version number overflow.
93 if (unlikely(v
>= gl_mg::VERSION_MAX
))
94 tx
->restart(RESTART_INIT_METHOD_GROUP
);
96 // This validates that we have a consistent snapshot, which is also
97 // for making privatization safety work (see the class' comments).
98 // Note that this check here will be performed by the subsequent CAS
99 // again, so relaxed memory order is fine.
100 gtm_word now
= o_gl_mg
.orec
.load(memory_order_relaxed
);
102 tx
->restart(RESTART_VALIDATE_WRITE
);
104 // CAS global orec from our snapshot time to the locked state.
105 // We need acquire memory order here to synchronize with other
106 // (ownership) releases of the orec. We do not need acq_rel order
107 // because whenever another thread reads from this CAS'
108 // modification, then it will abort anyway and does not rely on
109 // any further happens-before relation to be established.
110 // Also note that unlike in ml_wt's increase of the global time
111 // base (remember that the global orec is used as time base), we do
112 // not need require memory order here because we do not need to make
113 // prior orec acquisitions visible to other threads that try to
114 // extend their snapshot time.
115 if (!o_gl_mg
.orec
.compare_exchange_strong (now
, gl_mg::set_locked(now
),
116 memory_order_acquire
))
117 tx
->restart(RESTART_LOCKED_WRITE
);
119 // We use an explicit fence here to avoid having to use release
120 // memory order for all subsequent data stores. This fence will
121 // synchronize with loads of the data with acquire memory order. See
122 // validate() for why this is necessary.
123 // Adding require memory order to the prior CAS is not sufficient,
124 // at least according to the Batty et al. formalization of the
126 atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_release
);
128 // Set shared_state to new value.
129 tx
->shared_state
.store(gl_mg::set_locked(now
), memory_order_release
);
132 tx
->undolog
.log(addr
, len
);
135 static void validate(gtm_thread
*tx
= gtm_thr())
137 // Check that snapshot is consistent. We expect the previous data load to
138 // have acquire memory order, or be atomic and followed by an acquire
140 // As a result, the data load will synchronize with the release fence
141 // issued by the transactions whose data updates the data load has read
142 // from. This forces the orec load to read from a visible sequence of side
143 // effects that starts with the other updating transaction's store that
144 // acquired the orec and set it to locked.
145 // We therefore either read a value with the locked bit set (and restart)
146 // or read an orec value that was written after the data had been written.
147 // Either will allow us to detect inconsistent reads because it will have
148 // a higher/different value.
149 gtm_word l
= o_gl_mg
.orec
.load(memory_order_relaxed
);
150 if (l
!= tx
->shared_state
.load(memory_order_relaxed
))
151 tx
->restart(RESTART_VALIDATE_READ
);
154 template <typename V
> static V
load(const V
* addr
, ls_modifier mod
)
156 // Read-for-write should be unlikely, but we need to handle it or will
157 // break later WaW optimizations.
158 if (unlikely(mod
== RfW
))
160 pre_write(addr
, sizeof(V
));
163 if (unlikely(mod
== RaW
))
166 // We do not have acquired the orec, so we need to load a value and then
167 // validate that this was consistent.
168 // This needs to have acquire memory order (see validate()).
169 // Alternatively, we can put an acquire fence after the data load but this
170 // is probably less efficient.
171 // FIXME We would need an atomic load with acquire memory order here but
172 // we can't just forge an atomic load for nonatomic data because this
173 // might not work on all implementations of atomics. However, we need
174 // the acquire memory order and we can only establish this if we link
175 // it to the matching release using a reads-from relation between atomic
176 // loads. Also, the compiler is allowed to optimize nonatomic accesses
177 // differently than atomic accesses (e.g., if the load would be moved to
178 // after the fence, we potentially don't synchronize properly anymore).
179 // Instead of the following, just use an ordinary load followed by an
180 // acquire fence, and hope that this is good enough for now:
181 // V v = atomic_load_explicit((atomic<V>*)addr, memory_order_acquire);
183 atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_acquire
);
188 template <typename V
> static void store(V
* addr
, const V value
,
191 if (likely(mod
!= WaW
))
192 pre_write(addr
, sizeof(V
));
193 // FIXME We would need an atomic store here but we can't just forge an
194 // atomic load for nonatomic data because this might not work on all
195 // implementations of atomics. However, we need this store to link the
196 // release fence in pre_write() to the acquire operation in load, which
197 // is only guaranteed if we have a reads-from relation between atomic
198 // accesses. Also, the compiler is allowed to optimize nonatomic accesses
199 // differently than atomic accesses (e.g., if the store would be moved
200 // to before the release fence in pre_write(), things could go wrong).
201 // atomic_store_explicit((atomic<V>*)addr, value, memory_order_relaxed);
206 static void memtransfer_static(void *dst
, const void* src
, size_t size
,
207 bool may_overlap
, ls_modifier dst_mod
, ls_modifier src_mod
)
209 gtm_thread
*tx
= gtm_thr();
210 if (dst_mod
!= WaW
&& dst_mod
!= NONTXNAL
)
211 pre_write(dst
, size
, tx
);
212 // We need at least undo-logging for an RfW src region because we might
213 // subsequently write there with WaW.
215 pre_write(src
, size
, tx
);
217 // FIXME We should use atomics here (see store()). Let's just hope that
218 // memcpy/memmove are good enough.
220 ::memcpy(dst
, src
, size
);
222 ::memmove(dst
, src
, size
);
224 if (src_mod
!= RfW
&& src_mod
!= RaW
&& src_mod
!= NONTXNAL
229 static void memset_static(void *dst
, int c
, size_t size
, ls_modifier mod
)
232 pre_write(dst
, size
);
233 // FIXME We should use atomics here (see store()). Let's just hope that
234 // memset is good enough.
235 ::memset(dst
, c
, size
);
238 virtual gtm_restart_reason
begin_or_restart()
240 // We don't need to do anything for nested transactions.
241 gtm_thread
*tx
= gtm_thr();
242 if (tx
->parent_txns
.size() > 0)
245 // Spin until global orec is not locked.
246 // TODO This is not necessary if there are no pure loads (check txn props).
251 // We need acquire memory order here so that this load will
252 // synchronize with the store that releases the orec in trycommit().
253 // In turn, this makes sure that subsequent data loads will read from
254 // a visible sequence of side effects that starts with the most recent
255 // store to the data right before the release of the orec.
256 v
= o_gl_mg
.orec
.load(memory_order_acquire
);
257 if (!gl_mg::is_locked(v
))
259 // TODO need method-specific max spin count
260 if (++i
> gtm_spin_count_var
)
261 return RESTART_VALIDATE_READ
;
265 // Everything is okay, we have a snapshot time.
266 // We don't need to enforce any ordering for the following store. There
267 // are no earlier data loads in this transaction, so the store cannot
268 // become visible before those (which could lead to the violation of
269 // privatization safety). The store can become visible after later loads
270 // but this does not matter because the previous value will have been
271 // smaller or equal (the serial lock will set shared_state to zero when
272 // marking the transaction as active, and restarts enforce immediate
273 // visibility of a smaller or equal value with a barrier (see
275 tx
->shared_state
.store(v
, memory_order_relaxed
);
279 virtual bool trycommit(gtm_word
& priv_time
)
281 gtm_thread
* tx
= gtm_thr();
282 gtm_word v
= tx
->shared_state
.load(memory_order_relaxed
);
284 // Release the orec but do not reset shared_state, which will be modified
285 // by the serial lock right after our commit anyway. Also, resetting
286 // shared state here would interfere with the serial lock's use of this
288 if (gl_mg::is_locked(v
))
290 // Release the global orec, increasing its version number / timestamp.
291 // See begin_or_restart() for why we need release memory order here.
292 v
= gl_mg::clear_locked(v
) + 1;
293 o_gl_mg
.orec
.store(v
, memory_order_release
);
296 // Need to ensure privatization safety. Every other transaction must have
297 // a snapshot time that is at least as high as our commit time (i.e., our
298 // commit must be visible to them). Because of proxy privatization, we
299 // must ensure that even if we are a read-only transaction. See
300 // ml_wt_dispatch::trycommit() for details: We can't get quite the same
301 // set of problems because we just use one orec and thus, for example,
302 // there cannot be concurrent writers -- but we can still get pending
303 // loads to privatized data when not ensuring privatization safety, which
304 // is problematic if the program unmaps the privatized memory.
309 virtual void rollback(gtm_transaction_cp
*cp
)
311 // We don't do anything for rollbacks of nested transactions.
315 gtm_thread
*tx
= gtm_thr();
316 gtm_word v
= tx
->shared_state
.load(memory_order_relaxed
);
318 // Release lock and increment version number to prevent dirty reads.
319 // Also reset shared state here, so that begin_or_restart() can expect a
320 // value that is correct wrt. privatization safety.
321 if (gl_mg::is_locked(v
))
323 // With our rollback, global time increases.
324 v
= gl_mg::clear_locked(v
) + 1;
326 // First reset the timestamp published via shared_state. Release
327 // memory order will make this happen after undoing prior data writes.
328 // This must also happen before we actually release the global orec
329 // next, so that future update transactions in other threads observe
330 // a meaningful snapshot time for our transaction; otherwise, they
331 // could read a shared_store value with the LOCK_BIT set, which can
332 // break privatization safety because it's larger than the actual
333 // snapshot time. Note that we only need to consider other update
334 // transactions because only those will potentially privatize data.
335 tx
->shared_state
.store(v
, memory_order_release
);
337 // Release the global orec, increasing its version number / timestamp.
338 // See begin_or_restart() for why we need release memory order here,
339 // and we also need it to make future update transactions read the
340 // prior update to shared_state too (update transactions acquire the
341 // global orec with acquire memory order).
342 o_gl_mg
.orec
.store(v
, memory_order_release
);
347 virtual bool snapshot_most_recent()
349 // This is the same check as in validate() except that we do not restart
350 // on failure but simply return the result.
351 return o_gl_mg
.orec
.load(memory_order_relaxed
)
352 == gtm_thr()->shared_state
.load(memory_order_relaxed
);
356 CREATE_DISPATCH_METHODS(virtual, )
357 CREATE_DISPATCH_METHODS_MEM()
359 gl_wt_dispatch() : abi_dispatch(false, true, false, false, 0, &o_gl_mg
)
365 static const gl_wt_dispatch o_gl_wt_dispatch
;
368 GTM::dispatch_gl_wt ()
370 return const_cast<gl_wt_dispatch
*>(&o_gl_wt_dispatch
);