On Mon, Oct 05, 2020 at 05:15:57PM +0200, Luc Maranget wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 12:16:31AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > > > Hi Alan, > > > > > > Just a minor nit in the litmus test. > > > > > > On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 09:22:12 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > To expand on my statement about the LKMM's weakness regarding control > > > > constructs, here is a litmus test to illustrate the issue. You might > > > > want to add this to one of the archives. > > > > > > > > Alan > > > > > > > > C crypto-control-data > > > > (* > > > > * LB plus crypto-control-data plus data > > > > * > > > > * Expected result: allowed > > > > * > > > > * This is an example of OOTA and we would like it to be forbidden. > > > > * The WRITE_ONCE in P0 is both data-dependent and (at the hardware level) > > > > * control-dependent on the preceding READ_ONCE. But the dependencies are > > > > * hidden by the form of the conditional control construct, hence the > > > > * name "crypto-control-data". The memory model doesn't recognize them. > > > > *) > > > > > > > > {} > > > > > > > > P0(int *x, int *y) > > > > { > > > > int r1; > > > > > > > > r1 = 1; > > > > if (READ_ONCE(*x) == 0) > > > > r1 = 0; > > > > WRITE_ONCE(*y, r1); > > > > } > > > > > > > > P1(int *x, int *y) > > > > { > > > > WRITE_ONCE(*x, READ_ONCE(*y)); > > > > > > Looks like this one-liner doesn't provide data-dependency of y -> x on herd7. > > > > You're right. This is definitely a bug in herd7. > > > > Luc, were you aware of this? > > Hi Alan, > > No I was not aware of it. Now I am, the bug is normally fixed in the master branch of herd git deposit. > <https://github.com/herd/herdtools7/commit/0f3f8188a326d5816a82fb9970fcd209a2678859> > > Thanks for the report. Thank you very much, Luc! I will rebuild and give it a try. Thanx, Paul