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authorAustin Clements <austin@google.com>2015-06-15 12:30:23 -0400
committerAustin Clements <austin@google.com>2015-06-19 15:29:50 +0000
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runtime: ensure GC sees type-safe memory on weak machines
Currently its possible for the garbage collector to observe uninitialized memory or stale heap bitmap bits on weakly ordered architectures such as ARM and PPC. On such architectures, the stores that zero newly allocated memory and initialize its heap bitmap may move after a store in user code that makes the allocated object observable by the garbage collector. To fix this, add a "publication barrier" (also known as an "export barrier") before returning from mallocgc. This is a store/store barrier that ensures any write done by user code that makes the returned object observable to the garbage collector will be ordered after the initialization performed by mallocgc. No barrier is necessary on the reading side because of the data dependency between loading the pointer and loading the contents of the object. Fixes one of the issues raised in #9984. Change-Id: Ia3d96ad9c5fc7f4d342f5e05ec0ceae700cd17c8 Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/11083 Reviewed-by: Rick Hudson <rlh@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Reviewed-by: Minux Ma <minux@golang.org> Reviewed-by: Martin Capitanio <capnm9@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
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@@ -38,3 +38,10 @@ TEXT ·atomicloadp(SB),NOSPLIT,$-8-16
ISYNC
MOVD R3, ret+8(FP)
RET
+
+TEXT ·publicationBarrier(SB),NOSPLIT,$-8-0
+ // LWSYNC is the "export" barrier recommended by Power ISA
+ // v2.07 book II, appendix B.2.2.2.
+ // LWSYNC is a load/load, load/store, and store/store barrier.
+ WORD $0x7c2004ac // LWSYNC
+ RET