Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support
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Msg-id dfc7a547-f28e-4325-849e-ca1730007647@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: [PATCH] Add native windows on arm64 support  (Dave Cramer <davecramer@postgres.rocks>)
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On 2024-09-24 Tu 2:31 PM, Dave Cramer wrote:


On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 16:28, Dave Cramer <davecramer@postgres.rocks> wrote:



On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 12:52, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
Hi,

On 2024-02-13 12:49:33 -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > I think I might have been on to something - if my human emulation of a
> > preprocessor isn't wrong, we'd end up with
> >
> > #define S_UNLOCK(lock)  \
> >         do { _ReadWriteBarrier(); (*(lock)) = 0; } while (0)
> >
> > on msvc + arm. And that's entirely insufficient - _ReadWriteBarrier() just
> > limits *compiler* level reordering, not CPU level reordering.  I think it's
> > even insufficient on x86[-64], but it's definitely insufficient on arm.
> >
> In fact ReadWriteBarrier has been deprecated _ReadWriteBarrier | Microsoft
> Learn
> <https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/intrinsics/readwritebarrier?view=msvc-170>

I'd just ignore that, that's just pushing towards more modern stuff that's
more applicable to C++ than C.


> I did try using atomic_thread_fence as per atomic_thread_fence -
> cppreference.com
> <https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/atomic/atomic_thread_fence>

The semantics of atomic_thread_fence are, uh, very odd.  I'd just use
MemoryBarrier().

#define S_UNLOCK(lock)  \
    do { MemoryBarrier(); (*(lock)) = 0; } while (0)
#endif
 
Has no effect.

I have no idea if that is what you meant that I should do ?

Dave


Revisiting this:

Andrew, can you explain the difference between ninja test (which passes) and what the build farm does. The buildfarm crashes.


The buildfarm client performs these steps:


meson test -C $pgsql --no-rebuild --suite setup
meson test -t $meson_test_timeout $jflag -C $pgsql --logbase checklog --print-errorlogs --no-rebuild --suite regress --test-args=--no-locale
meson test -t $meson_test_timeout $jflag -C $pgsql --print-errorlogs --no-rebuild --logbase checkworld --no-suite setup --no-suite regress 
foreach tested locale: meson test -t $meson_test_timeout $jflag -v -C $pgsql --no-rebuild --print-errorlogs --setup running --suite regress-running --logbase regress-installcheck-$locale


$pgsql is the build root, $jflag is setting the number of jobs


IOW, we do test suite setup, run the core regression tests, run all the remaining non-install tests, then run the install tests for each locale.

We don't call ninja directly, but I don't see why that should make a difference.


cheers


andrew


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