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package/erlang: fix detection of libatomic_ops For some platforms, hardware-assisted compare-and-swap may not be available, so libatomic_ops will not provide it. However, libatomic_ops can provide a purely software CAS emulation, but must be instructed to do so. erlang just forgot to tell libatomic_ops that it does require CAS. Fix that by defining AO_REQUIRE_CAS before including atmoic_ops.h, like is done in libunwind, as pointed out by Thomas. Also, erlang has a convoluted, mind-alterating set on aclocal.m4 macros, that just forgets to link against -latomic_ops when checking CAS is available, so that even if CAS is available, configure chokes. Since I would like to keep the little sanity I still have, just force linking with -latomic_ops. This is useless when the check is natrally sucessful (i.e. on platforms where CAS is available in HW), but we would eventually link with -latomic_ops there, too; it's just redundant. Overall, just consider that erlang requires libatomic_ops, so forcibly depend on it, it is easier than trying to disable it. We can revisit that whenever someone wants to run erlang on a platform for which there is no libatomic_ops support. Fixes a slew of autobuild ARM failures: http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/e7b/e7bfc4893dea6b133f0794ef44d50ad89bcb6662/ http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/3e9/3e9c307f1ec6536482641019dcaa94677f7267a3/ http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/a85/a85ca414e5b67af46510abd7b610eb5ae8661de4/ [...] [Thomas: fix minor typos in commit log, add dependency on BR2_PACKAGE_LIBATOMIC_ARCH_SUPPORTS to the Erlang comment about thread and shared library dependency.] Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Cc: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
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From 439fa2eae78a8900bda120072335be19d626498c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 23:39:40 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] erts/ethread: instruct libatomic_ops we do require CAS
We do require compare-and-swap (CAS), so we must instruct libatomic_ops
to provide it, even if the architecture does not have instructions for
it.
For example, on ARM, LDREX is required for fast CAS. But LDREX is only
available on ARMv6, so by default libatomic_ops will not have CAS for
anything below, like ARMv5. But ARMv5 is always UP, so using an
emulated CAS (that is signal-asyn-safe) is still possible (albeit much
slower).
Tell libatomic_ops to provide CAS, even if the hardware is not capable
of it, by using emulated CAS, as per libatomic_ops dosc:
https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/blob/master/doc/README.txt#L28
If this is included after defining AO_REQUIRE_CAS, then the package
will make an attempt to emulate compare-and-swap in a way that (at
least on Linux) should still be async-signal-safe.
Thanks go to Thomas for all this insight! :-)
Thanks go to Frank for reporting the issue! :-)
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Frank Hunleth <fhunleth@troodon-software.com>
---
erts/include/internal/libatomic_ops/ethread.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/erts/include/internal/libatomic_ops/ethread.h b/erts/include/internal/libatomic_ops/ethread.h
index d65ee19..71d3598 100644
--- a/erts/include/internal/libatomic_ops/ethread.h
+++ b/erts/include/internal/libatomic_ops/ethread.h
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
#define ETHR_NATIVE_IMPL__ "libatomic_ops"
+#define AO_REQUIRE_CAS
#include "atomic_ops.h"
#include "ethr_membar.h"
#include "ethr_atomic.h"
diff --git a/erts/aclocal.m4 b/erts/aclocal.m4
index d65ee19..71d3598 100644
--- a/erts/aclocal.m4
+++ b/erts/aclocal.m4
@@ -1414,7 +1414,8 @@
fi;;
esac
ethr_have_libatomic_ops=no
- AC_TRY_LINK([#include "atomic_ops.h"],
+ AC_TRY_LINK([#define AO_REQUIRE_CAS
+ #include "atomic_ops.h"],
[
volatile AO_t x;
AO_t y;
@@ -1455,6 +1455,7 @@
AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(AO_t, ,
[
#include <stdio.h>
+ #define AO_REQUIRE_CAS
#include "atomic_ops.h"
])
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(ETHR_SIZEOF_AO_T, $ac_cv_sizeof_AO_t, [Define to the size of AO_t if libatomic_ops is used])
--
1.9.1