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[1/2] condition_variable: Report early wakeup of wait_until as no_timeout

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Mike Crowe July 10, 2018, 10:09 a.m. UTC
As currently implemented, condition_variable always ultimately waits
against std::chrono::system_clock. This clock can be changed in arbitrary
ways by the user which may result in us waking up too early or too late
when measured against the caller-supplied clock.

We can't (yet) do much about waking up too late[1], but
if we wake up too early we must return cv_status::no_timeout to indicate a
spurious wakeup rather than incorrectly returning cv_status::timeout.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41861
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 libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog                      | 5 +++++
 libstdc++-v3/include/std/condition_variable | 8 +++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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Jonathan Wakely July 20, 2018, 10:53 a.m. UTC | #1
On 10/07/18 11:09 +0100, Mike Crowe wrote:
>As currently implemented, condition_variable always ultimately waits
>against std::chrono::system_clock. This clock can be changed in arbitrary
>ways by the user which may result in us waking up too early or too late
>when measured against the caller-supplied clock.
>
>We can't (yet) do much about waking up too late[1], but
>if we wake up too early we must return cv_status::no_timeout to indicate a
>spurious wakeup rather than incorrectly returning cv_status::timeout.

The patch looks good, thanks.

Can we come up with a test for this, using a user-defined clock that
jumps back?


>[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41861
>---
> libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog                      | 5 +++++
> libstdc++-v3/include/std/condition_variable | 8 +++++++-
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
>index cceef0271ae..ea7875ace9f 100644
>--- a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
>+++ b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
>@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
>+2018-07-09  Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
>+       * include/std/condition_variable (wait_until): Only report timeout
>+       if we really have timed out when measured against the
>+       caller-supplied clock.
>+
> 2018-07-06  François Dumont  <fdumont@gcc.gnu.org>
>
>        * include/debug/functions.h (__gnu_debug::__check_string): Move...
>diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/std/condition_variable b/libstdc++-v3/include/std/condition_variable
>index 84863a162d6..a2d146a9b09 100644
>--- a/libstdc++-v3/include/std/condition_variable
>+++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/std/condition_variable
>@@ -116,7 +116,13 @@ _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
>        const auto __delta = __atime - __c_entry;
>        const auto __s_atime = __s_entry + __delta;
>
>-       return __wait_until_impl(__lock, __s_atime);
>+       // We might get a timeout when measured against __clock_t but
>+       // we need to check against the caller-supplied clock to tell
>+       // whether we should return a timeout.
>+       if (__wait_until_impl(__lock, __s_atime) == cv_status::timeout)
>+         return _Clock::now() < __atime ? cv_status::no_timeout : cv_status::timeout;
>+       else
>+         return cv_status::no_timeout;
>       }
>
>     template<typename _Clock, typename _Duration, typename _Predicate>
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Mike Crowe July 20, 2018, 11:30 a.m. UTC | #2
On Friday 20 July 2018 at 11:53:38 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> On 10/07/18 11:09 +0100, Mike Crowe wrote:
> > As currently implemented, condition_variable always ultimately waits
> > against std::chrono::system_clock. This clock can be changed in arbitrary
> > ways by the user which may result in us waking up too early or too late
> > when measured against the caller-supplied clock.
> > 
> > We can't (yet) do much about waking up too late[1], but
> > if we wake up too early we must return cv_status::no_timeout to indicate a
> > spurious wakeup rather than incorrectly returning cv_status::timeout.
> 
> The patch looks good, thanks.
> 
> Can we come up with a test for this, using a user-defined clock that
> jumps back?

That's a good idea. I'll do that.

Thanks.

Mike.
Jonathan Wakely July 20, 2018, 11:44 a.m. UTC | #3
On 20/07/18 12:30 +0100, Mike Crowe wrote:
>On Friday 20 July 2018 at 11:53:38 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> On 10/07/18 11:09 +0100, Mike Crowe wrote:
>> > As currently implemented, condition_variable always ultimately waits
>> > against std::chrono::system_clock. This clock can be changed in arbitrary
>> > ways by the user which may result in us waking up too early or too late
>> > when measured against the caller-supplied clock.
>> >
>> > We can't (yet) do much about waking up too late[1], but
>> > if we wake up too early we must return cv_status::no_timeout to indicate a
>> > spurious wakeup rather than incorrectly returning cv_status::timeout.
>>
>> The patch looks good, thanks.
>>
>> Can we come up with a test for this, using a user-defined clock that
>> jumps back?
>
>That's a good idea. I'll do that.

Thanks.

There are "broken" clocks in testsuite/30_threads/this_thread/60421.cc
and testsuite/30_threads/timed_mutex/try_lock_until/57641.cc but I'm
not sure if either of them is reusable. A custom one for this test
should be reasonably easy.
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diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
index cceef0271ae..ea7875ace9f 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ 
+2018-07-09  Mike Crowe <mac@mcrowe.com>
+       * include/std/condition_variable (wait_until): Only report timeout
+       if we really have timed out when measured against the
+       caller-supplied clock.
+
 2018-07-06  François Dumont  <fdumont@gcc.gnu.org>

        * include/debug/functions.h (__gnu_debug::__check_string): Move...
diff --git a/libstdc++-v3/include/std/condition_variable b/libstdc++-v3/include/std/condition_variable
index 84863a162d6..a2d146a9b09 100644
--- a/libstdc++-v3/include/std/condition_variable
+++ b/libstdc++-v3/include/std/condition_variable
@@ -116,7 +116,13 @@  _GLIBCXX_BEGIN_NAMESPACE_VERSION
        const auto __delta = __atime - __c_entry;
        const auto __s_atime = __s_entry + __delta;

-       return __wait_until_impl(__lock, __s_atime);
+       // We might get a timeout when measured against __clock_t but
+       // we need to check against the caller-supplied clock to tell
+       // whether we should return a timeout.
+       if (__wait_until_impl(__lock, __s_atime) == cv_status::timeout)
+         return _Clock::now() < __atime ? cv_status::no_timeout : cv_status::timeout;
+       else
+         return cv_status::no_timeout;
       }

     template<typename _Clock, typename _Duration, typename _Predicate>