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25 #include "libitm_i.h"
27 using namespace GTM;
29 namespace {
31 // This group consists of all TM methods that synchronize via multiple locks
32 // (or ownership records).
33 struct ml_mg : public method_group
35 static const gtm_word LOCK_BIT = (~(gtm_word)0 >> 1) + 1;
36 static const gtm_word INCARNATION_BITS = 3;
37 static const gtm_word INCARNATION_MASK = 7;
38 // Maximum time is all bits except the lock bit, the overflow reserve bit,
39 // and the incarnation bits).
40 static const gtm_word TIME_MAX = (~(gtm_word)0 >> (2 + INCARNATION_BITS));
41 // The overflow reserve bit is the MSB of the timestamp part of an orec,
42 // so we can have TIME_MAX+1 pending timestamp increases before we overflow.
43 static const gtm_word OVERFLOW_RESERVE = TIME_MAX + 1;
45 static bool is_locked(gtm_word o) { return o & LOCK_BIT; }
46 static gtm_word set_locked(gtm_thread *tx)
48 return ((uintptr_t)tx >> 1) | LOCK_BIT;
50 // Returns a time that includes the lock bit, which is required by both
51 // validate() and is_more_recent_or_locked().
52 static gtm_word get_time(gtm_word o) { return o >> INCARNATION_BITS; }
53 static gtm_word set_time(gtm_word time) { return time << INCARNATION_BITS; }
54 static bool is_more_recent_or_locked(gtm_word o, gtm_word than_time)
56 // LOCK_BIT is the MSB; thus, if O is locked, it is larger than TIME_MAX.
57 return get_time(o) > than_time;
59 static bool has_incarnation_left(gtm_word o)
61 return (o & INCARNATION_MASK) < INCARNATION_MASK;
63 static gtm_word inc_incarnation(gtm_word o) { return o + 1; }
65 // The shared time base.
66 atomic<gtm_word> time __attribute__((aligned(HW_CACHELINE_SIZE)));
68 // The array of ownership records.
69 atomic<gtm_word>* orecs __attribute__((aligned(HW_CACHELINE_SIZE)));
70 char tailpadding[HW_CACHELINE_SIZE - sizeof(atomic<gtm_word>*)];
72 // Location-to-orec mapping. Stripes of 32B mapped to 2^16 orecs using
73 // multiplicative hashing. See Section 5.2.2 of Torvald Riegel's PhD thesis
74 // for the background on this choice of hash function and parameters:
75 // http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-115596
76 // We pick the Mult32 hash because it works well with fewer orecs (i.e.,
77 // less space overhead and just 32b multiplication).
78 // We may want to check and potentially change these settings once we get
79 // better or just more benchmarks.
80 static const gtm_word L2O_ORECS_BITS = 16;
81 static const gtm_word L2O_ORECS = 1 << L2O_ORECS_BITS;
82 // An iterator over the orecs covering the region [addr,addr+len).
83 struct orec_iterator
85 static const gtm_word L2O_SHIFT = 5;
86 static const uint32_t L2O_MULT32 = 81007;
87 uint32_t mult;
88 size_t orec;
89 size_t orec_end;
90 orec_iterator (const void* addr, size_t len)
92 uint32_t a = (uintptr_t) addr >> L2O_SHIFT;
93 uint32_t ae = ((uintptr_t) addr + len + (1 << L2O_SHIFT) - 1)
94 >> L2O_SHIFT;
95 mult = a * L2O_MULT32;
96 orec = mult >> (32 - L2O_ORECS_BITS);
97 // We can't really avoid this second multiplication unless we use a
98 // branch instead or know more about the alignment of addr. (We often
99 // know len at compile time because of instantiations of functions
100 // such as _ITM_RU* for accesses of specific lengths.
101 orec_end = (ae * L2O_MULT32) >> (32 - L2O_ORECS_BITS);
103 size_t get() { return orec; }
104 void advance()
106 // We cannot simply increment orec because L2O_MULT32 is larger than
107 // 1 << (32 - L2O_ORECS_BITS), and thus an increase of the stripe (i.e.,
108 // addr >> L2O_SHIFT) could increase the resulting orec index by more
109 // than one; with the current parameters, we would roughly acquire a
110 // fourth more orecs than necessary for regions covering more than orec.
111 // Keeping mult around as extra state shouldn't matter much.
112 mult += L2O_MULT32;
113 orec = mult >> (32 - L2O_ORECS_BITS);
115 bool reached_end() { return orec == orec_end; }
118 virtual void init()
120 // We assume that an atomic<gtm_word> is backed by just a gtm_word, so
121 // starting with zeroed memory is fine.
122 orecs = (atomic<gtm_word>*) xcalloc(
123 sizeof(atomic<gtm_word>) * L2O_ORECS, true);
124 // This store is only executed while holding the serial lock, so relaxed
125 // memory order is sufficient here.
126 time.store(0, memory_order_relaxed);
129 virtual void fini()
131 free(orecs);
134 // We only re-initialize when our time base overflows. Thus, only reset
135 // the time base and the orecs but do not re-allocate the orec array.
136 virtual void reinit()
138 // This store is only executed while holding the serial lock, so relaxed
139 // memory order is sufficient here. Same holds for the memset.
140 time.store(0, memory_order_relaxed);
141 memset(orecs, 0, sizeof(atomic<gtm_word>) * L2O_ORECS);
145 static ml_mg o_ml_mg;
148 // The multiple lock, write-through TM method.
149 // Maps each memory location to one of the orecs in the orec array, and then
150 // acquires the associated orec eagerly before writing through.
151 // Writes require undo-logging because we are dealing with several locks/orecs
152 // and need to resolve deadlocks if necessary by aborting one of the
153 // transactions.
154 // Reads do time-based validation with snapshot time extensions. Incarnation
155 // numbers are used to decrease contention on the time base (with those,
156 // aborted transactions do not need to acquire a new version number for the
157 // data that has been previously written in the transaction and needs to be
158 // rolled back).
159 // gtm_thread::shared_state is used to store a transaction's current
160 // snapshot time (or commit time). The serial lock uses ~0 for inactive
161 // transactions and 0 for active ones. Thus, we always have a meaningful
162 // timestamp in shared_state that can be used to implement quiescence-based
163 // privatization safety.
164 class ml_wt_dispatch : public abi_dispatch
166 protected:
167 static void pre_write(gtm_thread *tx, const void *addr, size_t len)
169 gtm_word snapshot = tx->shared_state.load(memory_order_relaxed);
170 gtm_word locked_by_tx = ml_mg::set_locked(tx);
172 // Lock all orecs that cover the region.
173 ml_mg::orec_iterator oi(addr, len);
176 // Load the orec. Relaxed memory order is sufficient here because
177 // either we have acquired the orec or we will try to acquire it with
178 // a CAS with stronger memory order.
179 gtm_word o = o_ml_mg.orecs[oi.get()].load(memory_order_relaxed);
181 // Check whether we have acquired the orec already.
182 if (likely (locked_by_tx != o))
184 // If not, acquire. Make sure that our snapshot time is larger or
185 // equal than the orec's version to avoid masking invalidations of
186 // our snapshot with our own writes.
187 if (unlikely (ml_mg::is_locked(o)))
188 tx->restart(RESTART_LOCKED_WRITE);
190 if (unlikely (ml_mg::get_time(o) > snapshot))
192 // We only need to extend the snapshot if we have indeed read
193 // from this orec before. Given that we are an update
194 // transaction, we will have to extend anyway during commit.
195 // ??? Scan the read log instead, aborting if we have read
196 // from data covered by this orec before?
197 snapshot = extend(tx);
200 // We need acquire memory order here to synchronize with other
201 // (ownership) releases of the orec. We do not need acq_rel order
202 // because whenever another thread reads from this CAS'
203 // modification, then it will abort anyway and does not rely on
204 // any further happens-before relation to be established.
205 if (unlikely (!o_ml_mg.orecs[oi.get()].compare_exchange_strong(
206 o, locked_by_tx, memory_order_acquire)))
207 tx->restart(RESTART_LOCKED_WRITE);
209 // We use an explicit fence here to avoid having to use release
210 // memory order for all subsequent data stores. This fence will
211 // synchronize with loads of the data with acquire memory order.
212 // See post_load() for why this is necessary.
213 // Adding require memory order to the prior CAS is not sufficient,
214 // at least according to the Batty et al. formalization of the
215 // memory model.
216 atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_release);
218 // We log the previous value here to be able to use incarnation
219 // numbers when we have to roll back.
220 // ??? Reserve capacity early to avoid capacity checks here?
221 gtm_rwlog_entry *e = tx->writelog.push();
222 e->orec = o_ml_mg.orecs + oi.get();
223 e->value = o;
225 oi.advance();
227 while (!oi.reached_end());
229 // Do undo logging. We do not know which region prior writes logged
230 // (even if orecs have been acquired), so just log everything.
231 tx->undolog.log(addr, len);
234 static void pre_write(const void *addr, size_t len)
236 gtm_thread *tx = gtm_thr();
237 pre_write(tx, addr, len);
240 // Returns true iff all the orecs in our read log still have the same time
241 // or have been locked by the transaction itself.
242 static bool validate(gtm_thread *tx)
244 gtm_word locked_by_tx = ml_mg::set_locked(tx);
245 // ??? This might get called from pre_load() via extend(). In that case,
246 // we don't really need to check the new entries that pre_load() is
247 // adding. Stop earlier?
248 for (gtm_rwlog_entry *i = tx->readlog.begin(), *ie = tx->readlog.end();
249 i != ie; i++)
251 // Relaxed memory order is sufficient here because we do not need to
252 // establish any new synchronizes-with relationships. We only need
253 // to read a value that is as least as current as enforced by the
254 // callers: extend() loads global time with acquire, and trycommit()
255 // increments global time with acquire. Therefore, we will see the
256 // most recent orec updates before the global time that we load.
257 gtm_word o = i->orec->load(memory_order_relaxed);
258 // We compare only the time stamp and the lock bit here. We know that
259 // we have read only committed data before, so we can ignore
260 // intermediate yet rolled-back updates presented by the incarnation
261 // number bits.
262 if (ml_mg::get_time(o) != ml_mg::get_time(i->value)
263 && o != locked_by_tx)
264 return false;
266 return true;
269 // Tries to extend the snapshot to a more recent time. Returns the new
270 // snapshot time and updates TX->SHARED_STATE. If the snapshot cannot be
271 // extended to the current global time, TX is restarted.
272 static gtm_word extend(gtm_thread *tx)
274 // We read global time here, even if this isn't strictly necessary
275 // because we could just return the maximum of the timestamps that
276 // validate sees. However, the potential cache miss on global time is
277 // probably a reasonable price to pay for avoiding unnecessary extensions
278 // in the future.
279 // We need acquire memory oder because we have to synchronize with the
280 // increment of global time by update transactions, whose lock
281 // acquisitions we have to observe (also see trycommit()).
282 gtm_word snapshot = o_ml_mg.time.load(memory_order_acquire);
283 if (!validate(tx))
284 tx->restart(RESTART_VALIDATE_READ);
286 // Update our public snapshot time. Probably useful to decrease waiting
287 // due to quiescence-based privatization safety.
288 // Use release memory order to establish synchronizes-with with the
289 // privatizers; prior data loads should happen before the privatizers
290 // potentially modify anything.
291 tx->shared_state.store(snapshot, memory_order_release);
292 return snapshot;
295 // First pass over orecs. Load and check all orecs that cover the region.
296 // Write to read log, extend snapshot time if necessary.
297 static gtm_rwlog_entry* pre_load(gtm_thread *tx, const void* addr,
298 size_t len)
300 // Don't obtain an iterator yet because the log might get resized.
301 size_t log_start = tx->readlog.size();
302 gtm_word snapshot = tx->shared_state.load(memory_order_relaxed);
303 gtm_word locked_by_tx = ml_mg::set_locked(tx);
305 ml_mg::orec_iterator oi(addr, len);
308 // We need acquire memory order here so that this load will
309 // synchronize with the store that releases the orec in trycommit().
310 // In turn, this makes sure that subsequent data loads will read from
311 // a visible sequence of side effects that starts with the most recent
312 // store to the data right before the release of the orec.
313 gtm_word o = o_ml_mg.orecs[oi.get()].load(memory_order_acquire);
315 if (likely (!ml_mg::is_more_recent_or_locked(o, snapshot)))
317 success:
318 gtm_rwlog_entry *e = tx->readlog.push();
319 e->orec = o_ml_mg.orecs + oi.get();
320 e->value = o;
322 else if (!ml_mg::is_locked(o))
324 // We cannot read this part of the region because it has been
325 // updated more recently than our snapshot time. If we can extend
326 // our snapshot, then we can read.
327 snapshot = extend(tx);
328 goto success;
330 else
332 // If the orec is locked by us, just skip it because we can just
333 // read from it. Otherwise, restart the transaction.
334 if (o != locked_by_tx)
335 tx->restart(RESTART_LOCKED_READ);
337 oi.advance();
339 while (!oi.reached_end());
340 return &tx->readlog[log_start];
343 // Second pass over orecs, verifying that the we had a consistent read.
344 // Restart the transaction if any of the orecs is locked by another
345 // transaction.
346 static void post_load(gtm_thread *tx, gtm_rwlog_entry* log)
348 for (gtm_rwlog_entry *end = tx->readlog.end(); log != end; log++)
350 // Check that the snapshot is consistent. We expect the previous data
351 // load to have acquire memory order, or be atomic and followed by an
352 // acquire fence.
353 // As a result, the data load will synchronize with the release fence
354 // issued by the transactions whose data updates the data load has read
355 // from. This forces the orec load to read from a visible sequence of
356 // side effects that starts with the other updating transaction's
357 // store that acquired the orec and set it to locked.
358 // We therefore either read a value with the locked bit set (and
359 // restart) or read an orec value that was written after the data had
360 // been written. Either will allow us to detect inconsistent reads
361 // because it will have a higher/different value.
362 // Also note that differently to validate(), we compare the raw value
363 // of the orec here, including incarnation numbers. We must prevent
364 // returning uncommitted data from loads (whereas when validating, we
365 // already performed a consistent load).
366 gtm_word o = log->orec->load(memory_order_relaxed);
367 if (log->value != o)
368 tx->restart(RESTART_VALIDATE_READ);
372 template <typename V> static V load(const V* addr, ls_modifier mod)
374 // Read-for-write should be unlikely, but we need to handle it or will
375 // break later WaW optimizations.
376 if (unlikely(mod == RfW))
378 pre_write(addr, sizeof(V));
379 return *addr;
381 if (unlikely(mod == RaW))
382 return *addr;
383 // ??? Optimize for RaR?
385 gtm_thread *tx = gtm_thr();
386 gtm_rwlog_entry* log = pre_load(tx, addr, sizeof(V));
388 // Load the data.
389 // This needs to have acquire memory order (see post_load()).
390 // Alternatively, we can put an acquire fence after the data load but this
391 // is probably less efficient.
392 // FIXME We would need an atomic load with acquire memory order here but
393 // we can't just forge an atomic load for nonatomic data because this
394 // might not work on all implementations of atomics. However, we need
395 // the acquire memory order and we can only establish this if we link
396 // it to the matching release using a reads-from relation between atomic
397 // loads. Also, the compiler is allowed to optimize nonatomic accesses
398 // differently than atomic accesses (e.g., if the load would be moved to
399 // after the fence, we potentially don't synchronize properly anymore).
400 // Instead of the following, just use an ordinary load followed by an
401 // acquire fence, and hope that this is good enough for now:
402 // V v = atomic_load_explicit((atomic<V>*)addr, memory_order_acquire);
403 V v = *addr;
404 atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_acquire);
406 // ??? Retry the whole load if it wasn't consistent?
407 post_load(tx, log);
409 return v;
412 template <typename V> static void store(V* addr, const V value,
413 ls_modifier mod)
415 if (likely(mod != WaW))
416 pre_write(addr, sizeof(V));
417 // FIXME We would need an atomic store here but we can't just forge an
418 // atomic load for nonatomic data because this might not work on all
419 // implementations of atomics. However, we need this store to link the
420 // release fence in pre_write() to the acquire operation in load, which
421 // is only guaranteed if we have a reads-from relation between atomic
422 // accesses. Also, the compiler is allowed to optimize nonatomic accesses
423 // differently than atomic accesses (e.g., if the store would be moved
424 // to before the release fence in pre_write(), things could go wrong).
425 // atomic_store_explicit((atomic<V>*)addr, value, memory_order_relaxed);
426 *addr = value;
429 public:
430 static void memtransfer_static(void *dst, const void* src, size_t size,
431 bool may_overlap, ls_modifier dst_mod, ls_modifier src_mod)
433 gtm_rwlog_entry* log = 0;
434 gtm_thread *tx = 0;
436 if (src_mod == RfW)
438 tx = gtm_thr();
439 pre_write(tx, src, size);
441 else if (src_mod != RaW && src_mod != NONTXNAL)
443 tx = gtm_thr();
444 log = pre_load(tx, src, size);
446 // ??? Optimize for RaR?
448 if (dst_mod != NONTXNAL && dst_mod != WaW)
450 if (src_mod != RfW && (src_mod == RaW || src_mod == NONTXNAL))
451 tx = gtm_thr();
452 pre_write(tx, dst, size);
455 // FIXME We should use atomics here (see store()). Let's just hope that
456 // memcpy/memmove are good enough.
457 if (!may_overlap)
458 ::memcpy(dst, src, size);
459 else
460 ::memmove(dst, src, size);
462 // ??? Retry the whole memtransfer if it wasn't consistent?
463 if (src_mod != RfW && src_mod != RaW && src_mod != NONTXNAL)
465 // See load() for why we need the acquire fence here.
466 atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_acquire);
467 post_load(tx, log);
471 static void memset_static(void *dst, int c, size_t size, ls_modifier mod)
473 if (mod != WaW)
474 pre_write(dst, size);
475 // FIXME We should use atomics here (see store()). Let's just hope that
476 // memset is good enough.
477 ::memset(dst, c, size);
480 virtual gtm_restart_reason begin_or_restart()
482 // We don't need to do anything for nested transactions.
483 gtm_thread *tx = gtm_thr();
484 if (tx->parent_txns.size() > 0)
485 return NO_RESTART;
487 // Read the current time, which becomes our snapshot time.
488 // Use acquire memory oder so that we see the lock acquisitions by update
489 // transcations that incremented the global time (see trycommit()).
490 gtm_word snapshot = o_ml_mg.time.load(memory_order_acquire);
491 // Re-initialize method group on time overflow.
492 if (snapshot >= o_ml_mg.TIME_MAX)
493 return RESTART_INIT_METHOD_GROUP;
495 // We don't need to enforce any ordering for the following store. There
496 // are no earlier data loads in this transaction, so the store cannot
497 // become visible before those (which could lead to the violation of
498 // privatization safety). The store can become visible after later loads
499 // but this does not matter because the previous value will have been
500 // smaller or equal (the serial lock will set shared_state to zero when
501 // marking the transaction as active, and restarts enforce immediate
502 // visibility of a smaller or equal value with a barrier (see
503 // rollback()).
504 tx->shared_state.store(snapshot, memory_order_relaxed);
505 return NO_RESTART;
508 virtual bool trycommit(gtm_word& priv_time)
510 gtm_thread* tx = gtm_thr();
512 // If we haven't updated anything, we can commit.
513 if (!tx->writelog.size())
515 tx->readlog.clear();
516 return true;
519 // Get a commit time.
520 // Overflow of o_ml_mg.time is prevented in begin_or_restart().
521 // We need acq_rel here because (1) the acquire part is required for our
522 // own subsequent call to validate(), and the release part is necessary to
523 // make other threads' validate() work as explained there and in extend().
524 gtm_word ct = o_ml_mg.time.fetch_add(1, memory_order_acq_rel) + 1;
526 // Extend our snapshot time to at least our commit time.
527 // Note that we do not need to validate if our snapshot time is right
528 // before the commit time because we are never sharing the same commit
529 // time with other transactions.
530 // No need to reset shared_state, which will be modified by the serial
531 // lock right after our commit anyway.
532 gtm_word snapshot = tx->shared_state.load(memory_order_relaxed);
533 if (snapshot < ct - 1 && !validate(tx))
534 return false;
536 // Release orecs.
537 // See pre_load() / post_load() for why we need release memory order.
538 // ??? Can we use a release fence and relaxed stores?
539 gtm_word v = ml_mg::set_time(ct);
540 for (gtm_rwlog_entry *i = tx->writelog.begin(), *ie = tx->writelog.end();
541 i != ie; i++)
542 i->orec->store(v, memory_order_release);
544 // We're done, clear the logs.
545 tx->writelog.clear();
546 tx->readlog.clear();
548 // Need to ensure privatization safety. Every other transaction must
549 // have a snapshot time that is at least as high as our commit time
550 // (i.e., our commit must be visible to them).
551 priv_time = ct;
552 return true;
555 virtual void rollback(gtm_transaction_cp *cp)
557 // We don't do anything for rollbacks of nested transactions.
558 // ??? We could release locks here if we snapshot writelog size. readlog
559 // is similar. This is just a performance optimization though. Nested
560 // aborts should be rather infrequent, so the additional save/restore
561 // overhead for the checkpoints could be higher.
562 if (cp != 0)
563 return;
565 gtm_thread *tx = gtm_thr();
566 gtm_word overflow_value = 0;
568 // Release orecs.
569 for (gtm_rwlog_entry *i = tx->writelog.begin(), *ie = tx->writelog.end();
570 i != ie; i++)
572 // If possible, just increase the incarnation number.
573 // See pre_load() / post_load() for why we need release memory order.
574 // ??? Can we use a release fence and relaxed stores? (Same below.)
575 if (ml_mg::has_incarnation_left(i->value))
576 i->orec->store(ml_mg::inc_incarnation(i->value),
577 memory_order_release);
578 else
580 // We have an incarnation overflow. Acquire a new timestamp, and
581 // use it from now on as value for each orec whose incarnation
582 // number cannot be increased.
583 // Overflow of o_ml_mg.time is prevented in begin_or_restart().
584 // See pre_load() / post_load() for why we need release memory
585 // order.
586 if (!overflow_value)
587 // Release memory order is sufficient but required here.
588 // In contrast to the increment in trycommit(), we need release
589 // for the same reason but do not need the acquire because we
590 // do not validate subsequently.
591 overflow_value = ml_mg::set_time(
592 o_ml_mg.time.fetch_add(1, memory_order_release) + 1);
593 i->orec->store(overflow_value, memory_order_release);
597 // We need this release fence to ensure that privatizers see the
598 // rolled-back original state (not any uncommitted values) when they read
599 // the new snapshot time that we write in begin_or_restart().
600 atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_release);
602 // We're done, clear the logs.
603 tx->writelog.clear();
604 tx->readlog.clear();
607 virtual bool supports(unsigned number_of_threads)
609 // Each txn can commit and fail and rollback once before checking for
610 // overflow, so this bounds the number of threads that we can support.
611 // In practice, this won't be a problem but we check it anyway so that
612 // we never break in the occasional weird situation.
613 return (number_of_threads * 2 <= ml_mg::OVERFLOW_RESERVE);
616 CREATE_DISPATCH_METHODS(virtual, )
617 CREATE_DISPATCH_METHODS_MEM()
619 ml_wt_dispatch() : abi_dispatch(false, true, false, false, 0, &o_ml_mg)
623 } // anon namespace
625 static const ml_wt_dispatch o_ml_wt_dispatch;
627 abi_dispatch *
628 GTM::dispatch_ml_wt ()
630 return const_cast<ml_wt_dispatch *>(&o_ml_wt_dispatch);