The HTM tbegin. instruction can fail intermittently due to many reasons.
This can lead to htm-1.c FAILing from time to time. The solution is to
allow retrying the instruction a few times before aborting.
2022-02-15 Peter Bergner <bergner@linux.ibm.com>
gcc/testsuite/
* gcc.target/powerpc/htm-1.c: Retry intermittent failing tbegins.
{
long i;
unsigned long mask = 0;
+ unsigned long retry_count = 0;
repeat:
if (__builtin_tbegin (0))
{
mask++;
+ retry_count = 0;
}
else
- abort();
+ {
+ /* Retry a limited number of times before aborting. */
+ if (retry_count++ < 10)
+ goto repeat;
+ abort ();
+ }
if (mask == 1)
{