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despite being strongly ordered, the x86 memory model does not preclude reordering of loads across earlier stores. while a plain store suffices as a release barrier, we actually need a full barrier, since users of a_store subsequently load a waiter count to determine whether to issue a futex wait, and using a stale count will result in soft (fail-to-wake) deadlocks. these deadlocks were observed in malloc and possible with stdio locks and other libc-internal locking. on i386, an atomic operation on the caller's stack is used as the barrier rather than performing the store itself using xchg; this avoids the need to read the cache line on which the store is being performed. mfence is used on x86_64 where it's always available, and could be used on i386 with the appropriate cpu model checks if it's shown to perform better. |
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