Re: LogwrtResult contended spinlock - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: LogwrtResult contended spinlock
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Msg-id 202407010910.ktykqkc52ffb@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: LogwrtResult contended spinlock  (Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: LogwrtResult contended spinlock
Re: LogwrtResult contended spinlock
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Hello,

On 2024-Jun-29, Alexander Lakhin wrote:

> It doesn't, but the following works for me:
>  static inline uint64
>  pg_atomic_monotonic_advance_u64(volatile pg_atomic_uint64 *ptr, uint64 target_)
>  {
> -       uint64          currval;
> +       pg_attribute_aligned(8) uint64          currval;
> 
> because the failed assertion is:
> #ifndef PG_HAVE_ATOMIC_U64_SIMULATION
>     AssertPointerAlignment(&currval, 8);
> #endif

Hah, thank you.

In the meantime I noticed that pg_attribute_aligned() is not supported
in every platform/compiler, so for safety sake I think it's better to go
with what we do for PGAlignedBlock: use a union with a double member.
That should be 8-byte aligned on x86 as well, unless I misunderstand.

BTW if things works after this fix, I suggest you get a buildfarm member
running with this configuration.  Otherwise it's quite likely that we'll
break it again.  Or we could just decide we don't care about this
particular platform ...  but AFAICS the buildfarm does have other 32-bit
animals running.

[ looks at buildfarm ]

Oh!  while looking at Adder's config, I noticed this line:
Checking for alignment of "double" : 4 
So, I do misunderstand doubles.

So my patch is not going to work.  There seems to be nothing that has
alignment 8 there, so I guess we're back to using
pg_attribute_aligned() and abort the compile if that doesn't exist.

-- 
Álvaro Herrera        Breisgau, Deutschland  —  https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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