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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 <[email protected]> Acked-by: Andrea Parri <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
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@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ empty (wr-incoh | rw-incoh | ww-incoh) as plain-coherence
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(* Actual races *)
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let ww-nonrace = ww-vis & ((Marked * W) | rw-xbstar) & ((W * Marked) | wr-vis)
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let ww-race = (pre-race & co) \ ww-nonrace
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let wr-race = (pre-race & (co? ; rf)) \ wr-vis
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let wr-race = (pre-race & (co? ; rf)) \ wr-vis \ rw-xbstar^-1
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let rw-race = (pre-race & fr) \ rw-xbstar
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flag ~empty (ww-race | wr-race | rw-race) as data-race

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