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Re: [PATCH] Fix race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP [BZ #23275]
Stefan Liebler <stli@linux.ibm.com> writes:
> On 06/13/2018 10:41 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 06/12/2018 04:24 PM, Stefan Liebler wrote:
>>> The new testcase tst-mutex10 is triggering the race on s390x and
>>> intel. Presumably also on power, but I don't have access to a power
>>> machine with lock-elision. At least the code for power is the same as
>>> on the other two architectures. Can somebody test it on power?
>>
>> I tried the test case on a machine with:
>>
>> Model: 2.0 (pvr 004d 0200)
>> Model name: POWER8 (raw), altivec supported
>>
>> AT_HWCAP: true_le archpmu vsx arch_2_06 dfp ic_snoop smt mmu fpu
>> altivec ppc64 ppc32
>> AT_HWCAP2: htm-nosc vcrypto tar isel ebb dscr htm arch_2_07
>>
>> Presumably, that should have lock elision support?
> Unfortunately, I don't know.
> @Tulio: Can you answer this question?
Yes, this server should have lock elision.
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Tulio Magno