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From: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net, Jeffrey Burke <jburke@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH] mmstress: make shared global variables volatile
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:09:32 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5F38FC.7040001@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F5F2238.9010402@redhat.com>

On 03/13/2012 06:32 PM, Jan Stancek wrote:

> 
> Synchronization of threads depends on shared global variable.
> With gcc version 4.6.2 this test spins forever on:
>     while (wait_thread)
>         sched_yield();
> 
> Make global shared variables volatile, so each thread
> sees current value.
> 
> See also:
> Bug 36081 - gcc optimizations and threads (pthread)
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36081
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
> ---
>  testcases/kernel/mem/mtest05/mmstress.c |    6 +++---
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


pushed, thanks Jan.

Wanlong Gao

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-13 10:32 [LTP] [PATCH] mmstress: make shared global variables volatile Jan Stancek
2012-03-13 12:09 ` Wanlong Gao [this message]

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