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Re: [Qemu-devel] [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v5 11/11] new: arm/barrier-test f
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Alex Bennée |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v5 11/11] new: arm/barrier-test for memory barriers |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Aug 2015 11:30:15 +0100 |
alvise rigo <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Nice set of tests, they are proving to be helpful.
> One question below.
>
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
>>
>> This test has been written mainly to stress multi-threaded TCG behaviour
>> but will demonstrate failure by default on real hardware. The test takes
>> the following parameters:
>>
>> - "lock" use GCC's locking semantics
>> - "excl" use load/store exclusive semantics
>> - "acqrel" use acquire/release semantics
>>
>> Currently excl/acqrel lock up on MTTCG
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> arm/barrier-test.c | 206
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> config/config-arm-common.mak | 2 +
>> 2 files changed, 208 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 arm/barrier-test.c
>>
>> diff --git a/arm/barrier-test.c b/arm/barrier-test.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..53d690b
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arm/barrier-test.c
>> @@ -0,0 +1,206 @@
>> +#include <libcflat.h>
>> +#include <asm/smp.h>
>> +#include <asm/cpumask.h>
>> +#include <asm/barrier.h>
>> +#include <asm/mmu.h>
>> +
>> +#include <prng.h>
>> +
>> +#define MAX_CPUS 4
>> +
>> +/* How many increments to do */
>> +static int increment_count = 10000000;
>> +
>> +
>> +/* shared value, we use the alignment to ensure the global_lock value
>> + * doesn't share a page */
>> +static unsigned int shared_value;
>> +
>> +/* PAGE_SIZE * uint32_t means we span several pages */
>> +static uint32_t memory_array[PAGE_SIZE];
>> +
>> +__attribute__((aligned(PAGE_SIZE))) static unsigned int
>> per_cpu_value[MAX_CPUS];
>> +__attribute__((aligned(PAGE_SIZE))) static cpumask_t smp_test_complete;
>> +__attribute__((aligned(PAGE_SIZE))) static int global_lock;
>> +
>> +struct isaac_ctx prng_context[MAX_CPUS];
>> +
>> +void (*inc_fn)(void);
>> +
>> +static void lock(int *lock_var)
>> +{
>> + while (__sync_lock_test_and_set(lock_var, 1));
>> +}
>> +static void unlock(int *lock_var)
>> +{
>> + __sync_lock_release(lock_var);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void increment_shared(void)
>> +{
>> + shared_value++;
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void increment_shared_with_lock(void)
>> +{
>> + lock(&global_lock);
>> + shared_value++;
>> + unlock(&global_lock);
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void increment_shared_with_excl(void)
>> +{
>> +#if defined (__LP64__) || defined (_LP64)
>> + asm volatile(
>> + "1: ldxr w0, [%[sptr]]\n"
>> + " add w0, w0, #0x1\n"
>> + " stxr w1, w0, [%[sptr]]\n"
>> + " cbnz w1, 1b\n"
>> + : /* out */
>> + : [sptr] "r" (&shared_value) /* in */
>> + : "w0", "w1", "cc");
>> +#else
>> + asm volatile(
>> + "1: ldrex r0, [%[sptr]]\n"
>> + " add r0, r0, #0x1\n"
>> + " strexeq r1, r0, [%[sptr]]\n"
>> + " cmpeq r1, #0\n"
>
> Why are we calling these last two instructions with the 'eq' suffix?
> Shouldn't we just strex r1, r0, [sptr] and then cmp r1, #0?
Possibly, my armv7 is a little rusty. I'm just looking at tweaking this
test now so I'll try and clean that up.
>
> Thank you,
> alvise
>
>> + " bne 1b\n"
>> + : /* out */
>> + : [sptr] "r" (&shared_value) /* in */
>> + : "r0", "r1", "cc");
>> +#endif
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void increment_shared_with_acqrel(void)
>> +{
>> +#if defined (__LP64__) || defined (_LP64)
>> + asm volatile(
>> + " ldar w0, [%[sptr]]\n"
>> + " add w0, w0, #0x1\n"
>> + " str w0, [%[sptr]]\n"
>> + : /* out */
>> + : [sptr] "r" (&shared_value) /* in */
>> + : "w0");
>> +#else
>> + /* ARMv7 has no acquire/release semantics but we
>> + * can ensure the results of the write are propagated
>> + * with the use of barriers.
>> + */
>> + asm volatile(
>> + "1: ldrex r0, [%[sptr]]\n"
>> + " add r0, r0, #0x1\n"
>> + " strexeq r1, r0, [%[sptr]]\n"
>> + " cmpeq r1, #0\n"
>> + " bne 1b\n"
>> + " dmb\n"
>> + : /* out */
>> + : [sptr] "r" (&shared_value) /* in */
>> + : "r0", "r1", "cc");
>> +#endif
>> +
>> +}
>> +
>> +/* The idea of this is just to generate some random load/store
>> + * activity which may or may not race with an un-barried incremented
>> + * of the shared counter
>> + */
>> +static void shuffle_memory(int cpu)
>> +{
>> + int i;
>> + uint32_t lspat = isaac_next_uint32(&prng_context[cpu]);
>> + uint32_t seq = isaac_next_uint32(&prng_context[cpu]);
>> + int count = seq & 0x1f;
>> + uint32_t val=0;
>> +
>> + seq >>= 5;
>> +
>> + for (i=0; i<count; i++) {
>> + int index = seq & ~PAGE_MASK;
>> + if (lspat & 1) {
>> + val ^= memory_array[index];
>> + } else {
>> + memory_array[index] = val;
>> + }
>> + seq >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
>> + seq ^= lspat;
>> + lspat >>= 1;
>> + }
>> +
>> +}
>> +
>> +static void do_increment(void)
>> +{
>> + int i;
>> + int cpu = smp_processor_id();
>> +
>> + printf("CPU%d online\n", cpu);
>> +
>> + for (i=0; i < increment_count; i++) {
>> + per_cpu_value[cpu]++;
>> + inc_fn();
>> +
>> + shuffle_memory(cpu);
>> + }
>> +
>> + printf("CPU%d: Done, %d incs\n", cpu, per_cpu_value[cpu]);
>> +
>> + cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, &smp_test_complete);
>> + if (cpu != 0)
>> + halt();
>> +}
>> +
>> +int main(int argc, char **argv)
>> +{
>> + int cpu;
>> + unsigned int i, sum = 0;
>> + static const unsigned char seed[] = "myseed";
>> +
>> + inc_fn = &increment_shared;
>> +
>> + isaac_init(&prng_context[0], &seed[0], sizeof(seed));
>> +
>> + for (i=0; i<argc; i++) {
>> + char *arg = argv[i];
>> +
>> + if (strcmp(arg, "lock") == 0) {
>> + inc_fn = &increment_shared_with_lock;
>> + report_prefix_push("lock");
>> + } else if (strcmp(arg, "excl") == 0) {
>> + inc_fn = &increment_shared_with_excl;
>> + report_prefix_push("excl");
>> + } else if (strcmp(arg, "acqrel") == 0) {
>> + inc_fn = &increment_shared_with_acqrel;
>> + report_prefix_push("acqrel");
>> + } else {
>> + isaac_reseed(&prng_context[0], (unsigned char *)
>> arg, strlen(arg));
>> + }
>> + }
>> +
>> + /* fill our random page */
>> + for (i=0; i<PAGE_SIZE; i++) {
>> + memory_array[i] = isaac_next_uint32(&prng_context[0]);
>> + }
>> +
>> + for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
>> + uint32_t seed2 = isaac_next_uint32(&prng_context[0]);
>> + if (cpu == 0)
>> + continue;
>> +
>> + isaac_init(&prng_context[cpu], (unsigned char *) &seed2,
>> sizeof(seed2));
>> + smp_boot_secondary(cpu, do_increment);
>> + }
>> +
>> + do_increment();
>> +
>> + while (!cpumask_full(&smp_test_complete))
>> + cpu_relax();
>> +
>> + /* All CPUs done, do we add up */
>> + for_each_present_cpu(cpu) {
>> + sum += per_cpu_value[cpu];
>> + }
>> + report("total incs %d", sum == shared_value, shared_value);
>> +
>> + return report_summary();
>> +}
>> diff --git a/config/config-arm-common.mak b/config/config-arm-common.mak
>> index 67a9dda..af628e6 100644
>> --- a/config/config-arm-common.mak
>> +++ b/config/config-arm-common.mak
>> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ endif
>> tests-common = $(TEST_DIR)/selftest.flat
>> tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/spinlock-test.flat
>> tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/tlbflush-test.flat
>> +tests-common += $(TEST_DIR)/barrier-test.flat
>>
>> utils-common = $(TEST_DIR)/utils/kvm-query
>>
>> @@ -80,3 +81,4 @@ utils: $(utils-common)
>> $(TEST_DIR)/selftest.elf: $(cstart.o) $(TEST_DIR)/selftest.o
>> $(TEST_DIR)/spinlock-test.elf: $(cstart.o) $(TEST_DIR)/spinlock-test.o
>> $(TEST_DIR)/tlbflush-test.elf: $(cstart.o) $(TEST_DIR)/tlbflush-test.o
>> +$(TEST_DIR)/barrier-test.elf: $(cstart.o) $(TEST_DIR)/barrier-test.o
>> --
>> 2.5.0
>>
--
Alex Bennée