/* elision-conf.c: Lock elision tunable parameters. Copyright (C) 2015-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see . */ #include "config.h" #include #include #include #include #define TUNABLE_NAMESPACE elision #include /* Reasonable initial tuning values, may be revised in the future. This is a conservative initial value. */ struct elision_config __elision_aconf = { /* How many times to use a non-transactional lock after a transactional failure has occurred because the lock is already acquired. Expressed in number of lock acquisition attempts. */ .skip_lock_busy = 3, /* How often to not attempt to use elision if a transaction aborted due to reasons other than other threads' memory accesses. Expressed in number of lock acquisition attempts. */ .skip_lock_internal_abort = 3, /* How often to not attempt to use elision if a lock used up all retries without success. Expressed in number of lock acquisition attempts. */ .skip_lock_out_of_tbegin_retries = 3, /* How often we retry using elision if there is chance for the transaction to finish execution (e.g., it wasn't aborted due to the lock being already acquired. */ .try_tbegin = 3, /* Same as SKIP_LOCK_INTERNAL_ABORT but for trylock. */ .skip_trylock_internal_abort = 3, }; static inline void __always_inline do_set_elision_enable (int32_t elision_enable) { /* Enable elision if it's available in hardware. It's not necessary to check if __libc_enable_secure isn't enabled since elision_enable will be set according to the default, which is disabled. */ if (elision_enable == 1) __pthread_force_elision = (GLRO (dl_hwcap2) & PPC_FEATURE2_HAS_HTM) ? 1 : 0; } /* The pthread->elision_enable tunable is 0 or 1 indicating that elision should be disabled or enabled respectively. The feature will only be used if it's supported by the hardware. */ void TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_elision_enable) (tunable_val_t *valp) { int32_t elision_enable = (int32_t) valp->numval; do_set_elision_enable (elision_enable); } #define TUNABLE_CALLBACK_FNDECL(__name, __type) \ static inline void \ __always_inline \ do_set_elision_ ## __name (__type value) \ { \ __elision_aconf.__name = value; \ } \ void \ TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_elision_ ## __name) (tunable_val_t *valp) \ { \ __type value = (__type) (valp)->numval; \ do_set_elision_ ## __name (value); \ } TUNABLE_CALLBACK_FNDECL (skip_lock_busy, int32_t); TUNABLE_CALLBACK_FNDECL (skip_lock_internal_abort, int32_t); TUNABLE_CALLBACK_FNDECL (skip_lock_out_of_tbegin_retries, int32_t); TUNABLE_CALLBACK_FNDECL (try_tbegin, int32_t); TUNABLE_CALLBACK_FNDECL (skip_trylock_internal_abort, int32_t); /* Initialize elision. */ void __lll_elision_init (void) { /* Elision depends on tunables and must be explicitly turned on by setting the appropriate tunable on a supported platform. */ TUNABLE_GET (enable, int32_t, TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_elision_enable)); TUNABLE_GET (skip_lock_busy, int32_t, TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_elision_skip_lock_busy)); TUNABLE_GET (skip_lock_internal_abort, int32_t, TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_elision_skip_lock_internal_abort)); TUNABLE_GET (skip_lock_after_retries, int32_t, TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_elision_skip_lock_out_of_tbegin_retries)); TUNABLE_GET (tries, int32_t, TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_elision_try_tbegin)); TUNABLE_GET (skip_trylock_internal_abort, int32_t, TUNABLE_CALLBACK (set_elision_skip_trylock_internal_abort)); /* Linux from 3.9 through 4.2 do not abort HTM transaction on syscalls, instead it suspends the transaction and resumes it when returning to usercode. The side-effects of the syscall will always remain visible, even if the transaction is aborted. This is an issue when a transaction is used along with futex syscall, on pthread_cond_wait for instance, where futex might succeed but the transaction is rolled back leading the condition variable object in an inconsistent state. Glibc used to prevent it by always aborting a transaction before issuing a syscall. Linux 4.2 also decided to abort active transaction in syscalls which makes the glibc workaround superflours. Worse, glibc transaction abortions leads to a performance issues on recent kernels. So Lock Elision is just enabled when it has been explicitly set (either by tunables of by a configure switch) and if kernel aborts HTM transactions on syscalls (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC) */ __pthread_force_elision = (__pthread_force_elision && GLRO (dl_hwcap2) & PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC); if (!__pthread_force_elision) __elision_aconf.try_tbegin = 0; /* Disable elision on rwlocks. */ }