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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 16B mapped to 2^19 orecs.
73 static const gtm_word L2O_ORECS
= 1 << 19;
74 static const gtm_word L2O_SHIFT
= 4;
75 static size_t get_orec(const void* addr
)
77 return ((uintptr_t)addr
>> L2O_SHIFT
) & (L2O_ORECS
- 1);
79 static size_t get_next_orec(size_t orec
)
81 return (orec
+ 1) & (L2O_ORECS
- 1);
83 // Returns the next orec after the region.
84 static size_t get_orec_end(const void* addr
, size_t len
)
86 return (((uintptr_t)addr
+ len
+ (1 << L2O_SHIFT
) - 1) >> L2O_SHIFT
)
92 // We assume that an atomic<gtm_word> is backed by just a gtm_word, so
93 // starting with zeroed memory is fine.
94 orecs
= (atomic
<gtm_word
>*) xcalloc(
95 sizeof(atomic
<gtm_word
>) * L2O_ORECS
, true);
96 // This store is only executed while holding the serial lock, so relaxed
97 // memory order is sufficient here.
98 time
.store(0, memory_order_relaxed
);
106 // We only re-initialize when our time base overflows. Thus, only reset
107 // the time base and the orecs but do not re-allocate the orec array.
108 virtual void reinit()
110 // This store is only executed while holding the serial lock, so relaxed
111 // memory order is sufficient here. Same holds for the memset.
112 time
.store(0, memory_order_relaxed
);
113 memset(orecs
, 0, sizeof(atomic
<gtm_word
>) * L2O_ORECS
);
117 static ml_mg o_ml_mg
;
120 // The multiple lock, write-through TM method.
121 // Maps each memory location to one of the orecs in the orec array, and then
122 // acquires the associated orec eagerly before writing through.
123 // Writes require undo-logging because we are dealing with several locks/orecs
124 // and need to resolve deadlocks if necessary by aborting one of the
126 // Reads do time-based validation with snapshot time extensions. Incarnation
127 // numbers are used to decrease contention on the time base (with those,
128 // aborted transactions do not need to acquire a new version number for the
129 // data that has been previously written in the transaction and needs to be
131 // gtm_thread::shared_state is used to store a transaction's current
132 // snapshot time (or commit time). The serial lock uses ~0 for inactive
133 // transactions and 0 for active ones. Thus, we always have a meaningful
134 // timestamp in shared_state that can be used to implement quiescence-based
135 // privatization safety.
136 class ml_wt_dispatch
: public abi_dispatch
139 static void pre_write(gtm_thread
*tx
, const void *addr
, size_t len
)
141 gtm_word snapshot
= tx
->shared_state
.load(memory_order_relaxed
);
142 gtm_word locked_by_tx
= ml_mg::set_locked(tx
);
144 // Lock all orecs that cover the region.
145 size_t orec
= ml_mg::get_orec(addr
);
146 size_t orec_end
= ml_mg::get_orec_end(addr
, len
);
149 // Load the orec. Relaxed memory order is sufficient here because
150 // either we have acquired the orec or we will try to acquire it with
151 // a CAS with stronger memory order.
152 gtm_word o
= o_ml_mg
.orecs
[orec
].load(memory_order_relaxed
);
154 // Check whether we have acquired the orec already.
155 if (likely (locked_by_tx
!= o
))
157 // If not, acquire. Make sure that our snapshot time is larger or
158 // equal than the orec's version to avoid masking invalidations of
159 // our snapshot with our own writes.
160 if (unlikely (ml_mg::is_locked(o
)))
161 tx
->restart(RESTART_LOCKED_WRITE
);
163 if (unlikely (ml_mg::get_time(o
) > snapshot
))
165 // We only need to extend the snapshot if we have indeed read
166 // from this orec before. Given that we are an update
167 // transaction, we will have to extend anyway during commit.
168 // ??? Scan the read log instead, aborting if we have read
169 // from data covered by this orec before?
170 snapshot
= extend(tx
);
173 // We need acquire memory order here to synchronize with other
174 // (ownership) releases of the orec. We do not need acq_rel order
175 // because whenever another thread reads from this CAS'
176 // modification, then it will abort anyway and does not rely on
177 // any further happens-before relation to be established.
178 if (unlikely (!o_ml_mg
.orecs
[orec
].compare_exchange_strong(
179 o
, locked_by_tx
, memory_order_acquire
)))
180 tx
->restart(RESTART_LOCKED_WRITE
);
182 // We use an explicit fence here to avoid having to use release
183 // memory order for all subsequent data stores. This fence will
184 // synchronize with loads of the data with acquire memory order.
185 // See post_load() for why this is necessary.
186 // Adding require memory order to the prior CAS is not sufficient,
187 // at least according to the Batty et al. formalization of the
189 atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_release
);
191 // We log the previous value here to be able to use incarnation
192 // numbers when we have to roll back.
193 // ??? Reserve capacity early to avoid capacity checks here?
194 gtm_rwlog_entry
*e
= tx
->writelog
.push();
195 e
->orec
= o_ml_mg
.orecs
+ orec
;
198 orec
= o_ml_mg
.get_next_orec(orec
);
200 while (orec
!= orec_end
);
202 // Do undo logging. We do not know which region prior writes logged
203 // (even if orecs have been acquired), so just log everything.
204 tx
->undolog
.log(addr
, len
);
207 static void pre_write(const void *addr
, size_t len
)
209 gtm_thread
*tx
= gtm_thr();
210 pre_write(tx
, addr
, len
);
213 // Returns true iff all the orecs in our read log still have the same time
214 // or have been locked by the transaction itself.
215 static bool validate(gtm_thread
*tx
)
217 gtm_word locked_by_tx
= ml_mg::set_locked(tx
);
218 // ??? This might get called from pre_load() via extend(). In that case,
219 // we don't really need to check the new entries that pre_load() is
220 // adding. Stop earlier?
221 for (gtm_rwlog_entry
*i
= tx
->readlog
.begin(), *ie
= tx
->readlog
.end();
224 // Relaxed memory order is sufficient here because we do not need to
225 // establish any new synchronizes-with relationships. We only need
226 // to read a value that is as least as current as enforced by the
227 // callers: extend() loads global time with acquire, and trycommit()
228 // increments global time with acquire. Therefore, we will see the
229 // most recent orec updates before the global time that we load.
230 gtm_word o
= i
->orec
->load(memory_order_relaxed
);
231 // We compare only the time stamp and the lock bit here. We know that
232 // we have read only committed data before, so we can ignore
233 // intermediate yet rolled-back updates presented by the incarnation
235 if (ml_mg::get_time(o
) != ml_mg::get_time(i
->value
)
236 && o
!= locked_by_tx
)
242 // Tries to extend the snapshot to a more recent time. Returns the new
243 // snapshot time and updates TX->SHARED_STATE. If the snapshot cannot be
244 // extended to the current global time, TX is restarted.
245 static gtm_word
extend(gtm_thread
*tx
)
247 // We read global time here, even if this isn't strictly necessary
248 // because we could just return the maximum of the timestamps that
249 // validate sees. However, the potential cache miss on global time is
250 // probably a reasonable price to pay for avoiding unnecessary extensions
252 // We need acquire memory oder because we have to synchronize with the
253 // increment of global time by update transactions, whose lock
254 // acquisitions we have to observe (also see trycommit()).
255 gtm_word snapshot
= o_ml_mg
.time
.load(memory_order_acquire
);
257 tx
->restart(RESTART_VALIDATE_READ
);
259 // Update our public snapshot time. Probably useful to decrease waiting
260 // due to quiescence-based privatization safety.
261 // Use release memory order to establish synchronizes-with with the
262 // privatizers; prior data loads should happen before the privatizers
263 // potentially modify anything.
264 tx
->shared_state
.store(snapshot
, memory_order_release
);
268 // First pass over orecs. Load and check all orecs that cover the region.
269 // Write to read log, extend snapshot time if necessary.
270 static gtm_rwlog_entry
* pre_load(gtm_thread
*tx
, const void* addr
,
273 // Don't obtain an iterator yet because the log might get resized.
274 size_t log_start
= tx
->readlog
.size();
275 gtm_word snapshot
= tx
->shared_state
.load(memory_order_relaxed
);
276 gtm_word locked_by_tx
= ml_mg::set_locked(tx
);
278 size_t orec
= ml_mg::get_orec(addr
);
279 size_t orec_end
= ml_mg::get_orec_end(addr
, len
);
282 // We need acquire memory order here so that this load will
283 // synchronize with the store that releases the orec in trycommit().
284 // In turn, this makes sure that subsequent data loads will read from
285 // a visible sequence of side effects that starts with the most recent
286 // store to the data right before the release of the orec.
287 gtm_word o
= o_ml_mg
.orecs
[orec
].load(memory_order_acquire
);
289 if (likely (!ml_mg::is_more_recent_or_locked(o
, snapshot
)))
292 gtm_rwlog_entry
*e
= tx
->readlog
.push();
293 e
->orec
= o_ml_mg
.orecs
+ orec
;
296 else if (!ml_mg::is_locked(o
))
298 // We cannot read this part of the region because it has been
299 // updated more recently than our snapshot time. If we can extend
300 // our snapshot, then we can read.
301 snapshot
= extend(tx
);
306 // If the orec is locked by us, just skip it because we can just
307 // read from it. Otherwise, restart the transaction.
308 if (o
!= locked_by_tx
)
309 tx
->restart(RESTART_LOCKED_READ
);
311 orec
= o_ml_mg
.get_next_orec(orec
);
313 while (orec
!= orec_end
);
314 return &tx
->readlog
[log_start
];
317 // Second pass over orecs, verifying that the we had a consistent read.
318 // Restart the transaction if any of the orecs is locked by another
320 static void post_load(gtm_thread
*tx
, gtm_rwlog_entry
* log
)
322 for (gtm_rwlog_entry
*end
= tx
->readlog
.end(); log
!= end
; log
++)
324 // Check that the snapshot is consistent. We expect the previous data
325 // load to have acquire memory order, or be atomic and followed by an
327 // As a result, the data load will synchronize with the release fence
328 // issued by the transactions whose data updates the data load has read
329 // from. This forces the orec load to read from a visible sequence of
330 // side effects that starts with the other updating transaction's
331 // store that acquired the orec and set it to locked.
332 // We therefore either read a value with the locked bit set (and
333 // restart) or read an orec value that was written after the data had
334 // been written. Either will allow us to detect inconsistent reads
335 // because it will have a higher/different value.
336 // Also note that differently to validate(), we compare the raw value
337 // of the orec here, including incarnation numbers. We must prevent
338 // returning uncommitted data from loads (whereas when validating, we
339 // already performed a consistent load).
340 gtm_word o
= log
->orec
->load(memory_order_relaxed
);
342 tx
->restart(RESTART_VALIDATE_READ
);
346 template <typename V
> static V
load(const V
* addr
, ls_modifier mod
)
348 // Read-for-write should be unlikely, but we need to handle it or will
349 // break later WaW optimizations.
350 if (unlikely(mod
== RfW
))
352 pre_write(addr
, sizeof(V
));
355 if (unlikely(mod
== RaW
))
357 // ??? Optimize for RaR?
359 gtm_thread
*tx
= gtm_thr();
360 gtm_rwlog_entry
* log
= pre_load(tx
, addr
, sizeof(V
));
363 // This needs to have acquire memory order (see post_load()).
364 // Alternatively, we can put an acquire fence after the data load but this
365 // is probably less efficient.
366 // FIXME We would need an atomic load with acquire memory order here but
367 // we can't just forge an atomic load for nonatomic data because this
368 // might not work on all implementations of atomics. However, we need
369 // the acquire memory order and we can only establish this if we link
370 // it to the matching release using a reads-from relation between atomic
371 // loads. Also, the compiler is allowed to optimize nonatomic accesses
372 // differently than atomic accesses (e.g., if the load would be moved to
373 // after the fence, we potentially don't synchronize properly anymore).
374 // Instead of the following, just use an ordinary load followed by an
375 // acquire fence, and hope that this is good enough for now:
376 // V v = atomic_load_explicit((atomic<V>*)addr, memory_order_acquire);
378 atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_acquire
);
380 // ??? Retry the whole load if it wasn't consistent?
386 template <typename V
> static void store(V
* addr
, const V value
,
389 if (likely(mod
!= WaW
))
390 pre_write(addr
, sizeof(V
));
391 // FIXME We would need an atomic store here but we can't just forge an
392 // atomic load for nonatomic data because this might not work on all
393 // implementations of atomics. However, we need this store to link the
394 // release fence in pre_write() to the acquire operation in load, which
395 // is only guaranteed if we have a reads-from relation between atomic
396 // accesses. Also, the compiler is allowed to optimize nonatomic accesses
397 // differently than atomic accesses (e.g., if the store would be moved
398 // to before the release fence in pre_write(), things could go wrong).
399 // atomic_store_explicit((atomic<V>*)addr, value, memory_order_relaxed);
404 static void memtransfer_static(void *dst
, const void* src
, size_t size
,
405 bool may_overlap
, ls_modifier dst_mod
, ls_modifier src_mod
)
407 gtm_rwlog_entry
* log
= 0;
413 pre_write(tx
, src
, size
);
415 else if (src_mod
!= RaW
&& src_mod
!= NONTXNAL
)
418 log
= pre_load(tx
, src
, size
);
420 // ??? Optimize for RaR?
422 if (dst_mod
!= NONTXNAL
&& dst_mod
!= WaW
)
424 if (src_mod
!= RfW
&& (src_mod
== RaW
|| src_mod
== NONTXNAL
))
426 pre_write(tx
, dst
, size
);
429 // FIXME We should use atomics here (see store()). Let's just hope that
430 // memcpy/memmove are good enough.
432 ::memcpy(dst
, src
, size
);
434 ::memmove(dst
, src
, size
);
436 // ??? Retry the whole memtransfer if it wasn't consistent?
437 if (src_mod
!= RfW
&& src_mod
!= RaW
&& src_mod
!= NONTXNAL
)
439 // See load() for why we need the acquire fence here.
440 atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_acquire
);
445 static void memset_static(void *dst
, int c
, size_t size
, ls_modifier mod
)
448 pre_write(dst
, size
);
449 // FIXME We should use atomics here (see store()). Let's just hope that
450 // memset is good enough.
451 ::memset(dst
, c
, size
);
454 virtual gtm_restart_reason
begin_or_restart()
456 // We don't need to do anything for nested transactions.
457 gtm_thread
*tx
= gtm_thr();
458 if (tx
->parent_txns
.size() > 0)
461 // Read the current time, which becomes our snapshot time.
462 // Use acquire memory oder so that we see the lock acquisitions by update
463 // transcations that incremented the global time (see trycommit()).
464 gtm_word snapshot
= o_ml_mg
.time
.load(memory_order_acquire
);
465 // Re-initialize method group on time overflow.
466 if (snapshot
>= o_ml_mg
.TIME_MAX
)
467 return RESTART_INIT_METHOD_GROUP
;
469 // We don't need to enforce any ordering for the following store. There
470 // are no earlier data loads in this transaction, so the store cannot
471 // become visible before those (which could lead to the violation of
472 // privatization safety). The store can become visible after later loads
473 // but this does not matter because the previous value will have been
474 // smaller or equal (the serial lock will set shared_state to zero when
475 // marking the transaction as active, and restarts enforce immediate
476 // visibility of a smaller or equal value with a barrier (see
478 tx
->shared_state
.store(snapshot
, memory_order_relaxed
);
482 virtual bool trycommit(gtm_word
& priv_time
)
484 gtm_thread
* tx
= gtm_thr();
486 // If we haven't updated anything, we can commit.
487 if (!tx
->writelog
.size())
493 // Get a commit time.
494 // Overflow of o_ml_mg.time is prevented in begin_or_restart().
495 // We need acq_rel here because (1) the acquire part is required for our
496 // own subsequent call to validate(), and the release part is necessary to
497 // make other threads' validate() work as explained there and in extend().
498 gtm_word ct
= o_ml_mg
.time
.fetch_add(1, memory_order_acq_rel
) + 1;
500 // Extend our snapshot time to at least our commit time.
501 // Note that we do not need to validate if our snapshot time is right
502 // before the commit time because we are never sharing the same commit
503 // time with other transactions.
504 // No need to reset shared_state, which will be modified by the serial
505 // lock right after our commit anyway.
506 gtm_word snapshot
= tx
->shared_state
.load(memory_order_relaxed
);
507 if (snapshot
< ct
- 1 && !validate(tx
))
511 // See pre_load() / post_load() for why we need release memory order.
512 // ??? Can we use a release fence and relaxed stores?
513 gtm_word v
= ml_mg::set_time(ct
);
514 for (gtm_rwlog_entry
*i
= tx
->writelog
.begin(), *ie
= tx
->writelog
.end();
516 i
->orec
->store(v
, memory_order_release
);
518 // We're done, clear the logs.
519 tx
->writelog
.clear();
522 // Need to ensure privatization safety. Every other transaction must
523 // have a snapshot time that is at least as high as our commit time
524 // (i.e., our commit must be visible to them).
529 virtual void rollback(gtm_transaction_cp
*cp
)
531 // We don't do anything for rollbacks of nested transactions.
532 // ??? We could release locks here if we snapshot writelog size. readlog
533 // is similar. This is just a performance optimization though. Nested
534 // aborts should be rather infrequent, so the additional save/restore
535 // overhead for the checkpoints could be higher.
539 gtm_thread
*tx
= gtm_thr();
540 gtm_word overflow_value
= 0;
543 for (gtm_rwlog_entry
*i
= tx
->writelog
.begin(), *ie
= tx
->writelog
.end();
546 // If possible, just increase the incarnation number.
547 // See pre_load() / post_load() for why we need release memory order.
548 // ??? Can we use a release fence and relaxed stores? (Same below.)
549 if (ml_mg::has_incarnation_left(i
->value
))
550 i
->orec
->store(ml_mg::inc_incarnation(i
->value
),
551 memory_order_release
);
554 // We have an incarnation overflow. Acquire a new timestamp, and
555 // use it from now on as value for each orec whose incarnation
556 // number cannot be increased.
557 // Overflow of o_ml_mg.time is prevented in begin_or_restart().
558 // See pre_load() / post_load() for why we need release memory
561 // Release memory order is sufficient but required here.
562 // In contrast to the increment in trycommit(), we need release
563 // for the same reason but do not need the acquire because we
564 // do not validate subsequently.
565 overflow_value
= ml_mg::set_time(
566 o_ml_mg
.time
.fetch_add(1, memory_order_release
) + 1);
567 i
->orec
->store(overflow_value
, memory_order_release
);
571 // We need this release fence to ensure that privatizers see the
572 // rolled-back original state (not any uncommitted values) when they read
573 // the new snapshot time that we write in begin_or_restart().
574 atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_release
);
576 // We're done, clear the logs.
577 tx
->writelog
.clear();
581 virtual bool supports(unsigned number_of_threads
)
583 // Each txn can commit and fail and rollback once before checking for
584 // overflow, so this bounds the number of threads that we can support.
585 // In practice, this won't be a problem but we check it anyway so that
586 // we never break in the occasional weird situation.
587 return (number_of_threads
* 2 <= ml_mg::OVERFLOW_RESERVE
);
590 CREATE_DISPATCH_METHODS(virtual, )
591 CREATE_DISPATCH_METHODS_MEM()
593 ml_wt_dispatch() : abi_dispatch(false, true, false, false, 0, &o_ml_mg
)
599 static const ml_wt_dispatch o_ml_wt_dispatch
;
602 GTM::dispatch_ml_wt ()
604 return const_cast<ml_wt_dispatch
*>(&o_ml_wt_dispatch
);