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Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence

From Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.programming.threads
Subject Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence
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Date 2011-06-14 23:05 +0100
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Masakuni Oishi <yamasa@bsdhouse.org> writes:

> /*** code 1 ***/
> // Initially
> atomic<int> x(0), y(0);
>
> // Thread 1:
> y.store(1, memory_order_release);
> atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_seq_cst);
> r1 = x.load(memory_order_acquire);
>
> // Thread 2:
> x.store(1, memory_order_release);
>
> // Thread 3:
> r2 = x.load(memory_order_acquire);
> atomic_thread_fence(memory_order_seq_cst);
> r3 = y.load(memory_order_acquire);
> /***************/
>
> In the above code, is r1 == 0 && r2 == 1 && r3 == 0 possible?
> I think it should be prohibited, but I couldn't make sure that
> from the C++0x FDIS.

Premise 1: r3 == 0.

Since the only store to y is the store of 1 by thread 1, r3 == 0 implies
that the load from y on thread 3 is reading the initial value of y.

29.3p6 of N3290 says:

"For atomic operations A and B on an atomic object M, where A modifies M
and B takes its value, if there are memory_order_seq_cst fences X and Y
such that A is sequenced before X, Y is sequenced before B, and X
precedes Y in S, then B observes either the effects of A or a later
modification of M in its modification order."

If the fence in thread 1 precedes the fence in thread 3 in S, then the
read at r3 must therefore see the value written by the store in thread
1. Consequently, the fence in thread 3 must precede the fence in thread
1 in S.

Premise 2: r2 == 1.

The load of x in thread 3 reading 1 implies it has read the value of the
store to x from thread 2.

We already know that the fence in thread 3 precedes the fence in thread
1 in S.

29.3p7 of N3290 says:

"For atomic operations A and B on an atomic object M, if there are
memory_order_seq_cst fences X and Y such that A is sequenced before X, Y
is sequenced before B, and X precedes Y in S, then B occurs later than A
in the modification order of M."

In our case, the fence in thread 3 occurs before the fence in thread 1
in S. The fence in thread 3 is thus X, the fence in thread 1 Y, the read
from x in thread 3 is A and the read from x in thread 1 is B.

Thus the read of x in thread 1 must occur later in the modification
order of x than the read in thread 3. Since the read in thread 3 is of
the last store to x (1), the read in thread 1 must also read that value,
and r1 == 1.

Therefore r1==0, r2 == 1 and r3 == 0 is not possible.

> So, my questions are:
>  For code 1, is r1 == 0 && r2 == 1 && r3 == 0 allowed in the C++0x
> FDIS?

No.

Anthony
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        Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Anthony Williams <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> - 2011-06-16 08:35 +0100
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        Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-06-16 12:03 +0200
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                Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Masakuni Oishi <yamasa@bsdhouse.org> - 2011-06-22 10:46 -0700
                Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Masakuni Oishi <yamasa@bsdhouse.org> - 2011-06-22 11:19 -0700
                Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Masakuni Oishi <yamasa@bsdhouse.org> - 2011-06-22 11:57 -0700
                Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-06-27 14:05 +0200
                Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-29 16:14 -0700
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                Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> - 2011-07-01 12:48 +0200
      Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Masakuni Oishi <yamasa@bsdhouse.org> - 2011-06-15 01:53 -0700
        Re: questions about memory_order_seq_cst fence Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-06-15 02:57 -0700
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