diff Python/pystate.c @ 61184:4fd3ab5fa71d

Make (most of) Python's tests pass under Thread Sanitizer. http://code.google.com/p/data-race-test/wiki/ThreadSanitizer is a dynamic data race detector that runs on top of valgrind. With this patch, the binaries at http://code.google.com/p/data-race-test/wiki/ThreadSanitizer#Binaries pass many but not all of the Python tests. All of regrtest still passes outside of tsan. I've implemented part of the C1x atomic types so that we can explicitly mark variables that are used across threads, and get defined behavior as compilers advance. I've added tsan's client header and implementation to the codebase in dynamic_annotations.{h,c} (docs at http://code.google.com/p/data-race-test/wiki/DynamicAnnotations). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get helgrind and drd to give sensible error messages, even when I use their client annotations, so I'm not supporting them.
author Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@gmail.com>
date Mon, 03 May 2010 19:29:34 +0000
parents dd8527399582
children cab14be0ada1
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--- a/Python/pystate.c	Mon May 03 16:48:20 2010 +0000
+++ b/Python/pystate.c	Mon May 03 19:29:34 2010 +0000
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@
 
 static PyInterpreterState *interp_head = NULL;
 
-PyThreadState *_PyThreadState_Current = NULL;
+/* Assuming the current thread holds the GIL, this is the
+   PyThreadState for the current thread. */
+_Py_atomic_address _PyThreadState_Current = {NULL};
 PyThreadFrameGetter _PyThreadState_GetFrame = NULL;
 
 #ifdef WITH_THREAD
@@ -334,7 +336,7 @@
 void
 PyThreadState_Delete(PyThreadState *tstate)
 {
-	if (tstate == _PyThreadState_Current)
+	if (tstate == _Py_atomic_load_relaxed(&_PyThreadState_Current))
 		Py_FatalError("PyThreadState_Delete: tstate is still current");
 	tstate_delete_common(tstate);
 #ifdef WITH_THREAD
@@ -348,11 +350,12 @@
 void
 PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent()
 {
-	PyThreadState *tstate = _PyThreadState_Current;
+	PyThreadState *tstate = (PyThreadState*)_Py_atomic_load_relaxed(
+		&_PyThreadState_Current);
 	if (tstate == NULL)
 		Py_FatalError(
 			"PyThreadState_DeleteCurrent: no current tstate");
-	_PyThreadState_Current = NULL;
+	_Py_atomic_store_relaxed(&_PyThreadState_Current, NULL);
 	tstate_delete_common(tstate);
 	if (autoTLSkey && PyThread_get_key_value(autoTLSkey) == tstate)
 		PyThread_delete_key_value(autoTLSkey);
@@ -364,19 +367,22 @@
 PyThreadState *
 PyThreadState_Get(void)
 {
-	if (_PyThreadState_Current == NULL)
+	PyThreadState *tstate = (PyThreadState*)_Py_atomic_load_relaxed(
+		&_PyThreadState_Current);
+	if (tstate == NULL)
 		Py_FatalError("PyThreadState_Get: no current thread");
 
-	return _PyThreadState_Current;
+	return tstate;
 }
 
 
 PyThreadState *
 PyThreadState_Swap(PyThreadState *newts)
 {
-	PyThreadState *oldts = _PyThreadState_Current;
+	PyThreadState *oldts = (PyThreadState*)_Py_atomic_load_relaxed(
+		&_PyThreadState_Current);
 
-	_PyThreadState_Current = newts;
+	_Py_atomic_store_relaxed(&_PyThreadState_Current, newts);
 	/* It should not be possible for more than one thread state
 	   to be used for a thread.  Check this the best we can in debug
 	   builds.
@@ -405,16 +411,18 @@
 PyObject *
 PyThreadState_GetDict(void)
 {
-	if (_PyThreadState_Current == NULL)
+	PyThreadState *tstate = (PyThreadState*)_Py_atomic_load_relaxed(
+		&_PyThreadState_Current);
+	if (tstate == NULL)
 		return NULL;
 
-	if (_PyThreadState_Current->dict == NULL) {
+	if (tstate->dict == NULL) {
 		PyObject *d;
-		_PyThreadState_Current->dict = d = PyDict_New();
+		tstate->dict = d = PyDict_New();
 		if (d == NULL)
 			PyErr_Clear();
 	}
-	return _PyThreadState_Current->dict;
+	return tstate->dict;
 }
 
 
@@ -550,10 +558,7 @@
 {
 	/* Must be the tstate for this thread */
 	assert(PyGILState_GetThisThreadState()==tstate);
-	/* On Windows at least, simple reads and writes to 32 bit values
-	   are atomic.
-	*/
-	return tstate == _PyThreadState_Current;
+	return tstate == _Py_atomic_load_relaxed(&_PyThreadState_Current);
 }
 
 /* Internal initialization/finalization functions called by