Обсуждение: Issue about memory order on ARM

"=?utf-8?B?55uP5LiA?=" <w@www.hidva.com> writes:
> The code in GetSnapshotData() that read the `xid` field of  PGXACT struct has a dependency on code in
GetNewTransactionId()that write `MyPgXact->xid`. It means that the store of xid should happen before the load of it.
InC11, we can use [Release-Acquire
ordering](https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/atomic/memory_order#Release-Acquire_ordering)to achieve it. But now, there is
nospecial operation to do it(, and the [volatile](https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/volatile) keyword should not
playany role in this situation). 
> So it means that when a backend A returns from GetNewTransactionId(), the newval of `MyPgXact->xid` maybe just in
CPUstore buffer, or CPU cache line, so the newval is not yet visible to backend B that calling GetSnapshotData(). So
theassumption that 'all top-level XIDs <= latestCompletedXid are either present in the ProcArray, or not running
anymore'may not be safe.  

You'e ignoring the memory barriers that are implicit in LWLock
acquisition and release; as well as the fact that it's transaction
end, not start, that needs to be interlocked.  Please read the section
"Interlocking Transaction Begin, Transaction End, and Snapshots"
in src/backend/access/transam/README.

            regards, tom lane

Sorry to bother you, now I know that there is no problem here.

The model for reading and writing of PGXACT::xid and ShmemVariableCache->latestCompletedXid can be simplified as
follows:

     backend A                         backend B                               backend C
  wlock(XidGenLock);           wlock(XidGenLock);               rlock(ProcArrayLock);
  write APgXact->xid;         write BPgXact->xid;               read latestCompletedXid;
  unlock(XidGenLock);         unlock(XidGenLock);              read APgXact->xid;
                                          ...                                           read BPgXact->xid;
                                          wlock(ProcArrayLock);            unlock(ProcArrayLock);
                                          write latestCompletedXid;
                                          unlock(ProcArrayLock);

My previous problem was that C might not be able to see the value of APgXact->xid written by A because there was no
obviousacquire-release operation during this. But now I find that there are already some acquire-release operations
here.Because of the `unlock(XidGenLock)` in A and `wlock(XidGenLock)` in B and the rules introduced in [Inter-thread
happens-before](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/atomic/memory_order),we can know that the `write APgXact->xid` in A
inter-threadhappens before `write BPgXact->xid` in B. And `write BPgXact->xid` is sequenced before `write
latestCompletedXid`in B according to rules introduced in [Sequenced-before
rules](https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/eval_order).And similarly `write latestCompletedXid` in B
inter-threadhappens before `read latestCompletedXid` in C. So the `write APgXact->xid` in A inter-thread happens before
`readAPgXact->xid` in C. So C can see the value of APgXact->xid written by A.