Re: Strange Windows problem, lock_timeout test request

2013-03-18 03:52 keltezéssel, Tom Lane írta:
> Boszormenyi Zoltan <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
>> 2013-03-17 16:07 keltezéssel, Tom Lane írta:
>>> It suddenly occurs to me though that there's more than one way to skin
>>> this cat.  We could easily add another static flag variable called
>>> "sigalrm_allowed" or some such, and have the signal handler test that
>>> and immediately return without doing anything if it's off.  Clearing
>>> and setting such a variable would be a lot cheaper than an extra
>>> setitimer call, as well as more robust since it would protect us from
>>> all sources of SIGALRM not just ITIMER_REAL.
>> Something like the attached patch?
> Well, something like that, but it still needed some improvements.  In
> particular I thought it best to leave the signal handler still releasing
> the procLatch unconditionally --- that behavior is independent of what
> this module is doing.  Also you seem to have some odd ideas about what
> do-while will accomplish.  AFAIK, in this usage it's purely a syntactic
> trick without much semantic content.  It's the marking of the variable
> as "volatile" that counts for telling the compiler not to re-order
> operations.

The volatile marking shouldn't even be necessary there.
The signal handler doesn't writes to it, only the main code.
I just put it there saying "why not?" to myself.
IIRC, volatile is needed if both the signal handler and the
main code changes the same variable.

I got the reordering idea from here:
http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/compiler_barriers.html

Thanks for committing,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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