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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions overlays/bootstrap.nix
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Expand Up @@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ in {
++ fromUntil "8.10.1" "8.10.3" ./patches/ghc/ghc-8.10-ubxt.patch
++ fromUntil "8.10.3" "8.11" ./patches/ghc/ghc-8.10.3-ubxt.patch
++ final.lib.optional (versionAtLeast "8.6.4") ./patches/ghc/Cabal-3886.patch

++ fromUntil "8.10.3" "8.10.5" ./patches/ghc/ghc-8.10.3-rts-make-markLiveObject-thread-safe.patch
;
in ({
ghc844 = final.callPackage ../compiler/ghc {
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@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
From 96f8e2a47c5e53ae5fb86739aecd27c502e7f121 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Gamari <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2021 18:30:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] rts: Make markLiveObject thread-safe

markLiveObject is called by GC worker threads and therefore must be
thread-safe. This was a rather egregious oversight which the testsuite
missed.


(cherry picked from commit fe28a062e47bd914a6879f2d01ff268983c075ad)
---
rts/CheckUnload.c | 10 ++++++++--
rts/LinkerInternals.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rts/CheckUnload.c b/rts/CheckUnload.c
index 8f834d13fa..345a17cfec 100644
--- a/rts/CheckUnload.c
+++ b/rts/CheckUnload.c
@@ -381,11 +381,16 @@ static ObjectCode *findOC(OCSectionIndices *s_indices, const void *addr) {

static bool markObjectLive(void *data STG_UNUSED, StgWord key, const void *value STG_UNUSED) {
ObjectCode *oc = (ObjectCode*)key;
- if (oc->mark == object_code_mark_bit) {
+
+ // N.B. we may be called by the parallel GC and therefore this must be
+ // thread-safe. To avoid taking the linker_mutex in the fast path
+ // (when the object is already marked) we do an atomic exchange here and
+ // only take the lock in the case that the object is unmarked.
+ if (xchg(&oc->mark, object_code_mark_bit) == object_code_mark_bit) {
return true; // for hash table iteration
}

- oc->mark = object_code_mark_bit;
+ ACQUIRE_LOCK(&linker_mutex);
// Remove from 'old_objects' list
if (oc->prev != NULL) {
// TODO(osa): Maybe 'prev' should be a pointer to the referencing
@@ -405,6 +410,7 @@ static bool markObjectLive(void *data STG_UNUSED, StgWord key, const void *value
objects->prev = oc;
}
objects = oc;
+ RELEASE_LOCK(&linker_mutex);

// Mark its dependencies
iterHashTable(oc->dependencies, NULL, markObjectLive);
diff --git a/rts/LinkerInternals.h b/rts/LinkerInternals.h
index 44fe337802..444849fbac 100644
--- a/rts/LinkerInternals.h
+++ b/rts/LinkerInternals.h
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ struct _ObjectCode {
struct _ObjectCode *next_loaded_object;

// Mark bit
- uint8_t mark;
+ StgWord mark;

// Set of dependencies (ObjectCode*) of the object file. Traverse
// dependencies using `iterHashTable`.
--
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