Re: FW: cmpxchg hard lockup on AMD64 - ASUS(A8V-MX)

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon May 22 2006 - 07:50:58 EST


"chaitanya Huilgol" <chaitanya@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


> {
> __asm__ __volatile__ (
> "# LFPUSH \n\t"
> "1:\t"
> "movl %2, (%1) \n"
> LOCK "cmpxchg %1, %0 \n\t"
> "jnz 1b \n\t"
> :
> :"m" (*lf), "r" (cl), "a" (lf->top)

You don't tell gcc *lf is modified.

> );
> }
>
> cell* pop (lifo * lf)
> {
> cell* v=0;
> __asm__ __volatile__ (
> "# LFPOP \n\t"
> "testl %%eax, %%eax \n\t"
> "jz 20f \n"
> "10:\t"
> "movl (%%eax), %%ebx \n\t"
> "movl %%edx, %%ecx \n\t"
> "incl %%ecx \n\t"

Nothing uses the incremented %ecx

> LOCK "cmpxchg8b %1 \n\t"
> "jz 20f \n\t"
> "testl %%eax, %%eax \n\t"
> "jnz 10b \n"
> "20:\t"
> :"=a" (v)
> :"m" (*lf),


And you don't tell *lf is modified again.

It could be just a miscompilation caused by your wrong asm constraints.

-Andi
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