Re: head -r336568 and -r336570 appears to have made ci.freebsg.org's FreeBSD-head-amd64-gcc fail either than it had been (error: operand type 'struct <anonymous> *' is incompatible with argument 1 of '__atomic_fetch_add')

From: Mark Millard <marklmi_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 14:10:00 -0700
On 2018-Jul-25, at 10:09 AM, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On 2018-Jul-25, at 8:39 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/24/18 11:39 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
>>> On 2018-Jul-24, at 10:32 PM, Mark Millard <marklmi at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-head-amd64-gcc/6597/consoleText
>>>> (head -r336573 after the prior 6596's -r336565 ):
>>>> 
>>>> --- all_subdir_lib/ofed ---
>>>> In file included from /workspace/src/contrib/ofed/librdmacm/cma.h:43:0,
>>>>               from /workspace/src/contrib/ofed/librdmacm/acm.c:42:
>>>> /workspace/src/contrib/ofed/librdmacm/cma.h: In function 'fastlock_init':
>>>> /workspace/src/contrib/ofed/librdmacm/cma.h:60:2: error: invalid initializer
>>>> atomic_store(&lock->cnt, 0);
>>>> ^
>>>> In file included from /workspace/src/contrib/ofed/librdmacm/acm.c:42:0:
>>>> /workspace/src/contrib/ofed/librdmacm/cma.h: In function 'fastlock_acquire':
>>>> /workspace/src/contrib/ofed/librdmacm/cma.h:68:2: error: operand type 'struct <anonymous> *' is incompatible with argument 1 of '__atomic_fetch_add'
>>>> if (atomic_fetch_add(&lock->cnt, 1) > 0)
>>>> ^~
>>>> /workspace/src/contrib/ofed/librdmacm/cma.h: In function 'fastlock_release':
>>>> /workspace/src/contrib/ofed/librdmacm/cma.h:73:2: error: operand type 'struct <anonymous> *' is incompatible with argument 1 of '__atomic_fetch_sub'
>>>> if (atomic_fetch_sub(&lock->cnt, 1) > 1)
>>>> ^~
>>>> . . .
>>>> --- all_subdir_lib/ofed ---
>>>> *** [acm.o] Error code 1
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> https://ci.freebsd.org/job/FreeBSD-head-amd64-gcc/6621/consoleText ( for
>>>> -r336700 ) still shows this type of error.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> [I should have a subject with "head -r336568 through -r336570 . . .".]
>>> 
>>> From what I can tell looking around having something like:
>>> 
>>> if (atomic_fetch_add(&lock->cnt, 1) > 0)
>>> 
>>> involve a __atomic_fetch_add indicates that:
>>> 
>>> /usr/local/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-freebsd12.0/6.4.0/include/stdatomic.h
>>> 
>>> was in use instead of FreeBSD's stdatomic.h file.
>>> 
>>> If this is right, then the issue may be tied to head -r335782
>>> implicitly changing the order of the include file directory
>>> searching for builds via the devel/*-gcc .
>>> 
>>> (I reverted -r335782 in my environment some time ago and have
>>> not run into this problem in my context so far.)
>> 
>> C11 atomics should work fine with compiler-provided headers since they
>> are a part of the language (and the system stdatomic.h simply attempts
>> to mimic the compiler-provided header in case it is missing).
>> 
>> Simple standalone tests of _Atomic(int) with GCC don't trigger those
>> failures when using its stdatomic.h, so there is probably something else
>> going on with kernel includes being used while building the library,
>> etc.  The last time we had this issue with stdarg.h it was because a
>> header shared between the kernel and userland always used '<machine/stdarg.h>'
>> which is correct for the kernel but not for userland.
> 
> I did misread the headers. FreeBSD has the likes of:
> 
> #if defined(__CLANG_ATOMICS)
> . . .
> #define	atomic_fetch_add_explicit(object, operand, order)		\
> 	__c11_atomic_fetch_add(object, operand, order)
> . . .
> #elif defined(__GNUC_ATOMICS)
> . . .
> #define	atomic_fetch_add_explicit(object, operand, order)		\
> 	__atomic_fetch_add(&(object)->__val, operand, order)
> . . .
> #endif
> . . .
> #define	atomic_fetch_add(object, operand)				\
> 	atomic_fetch_add_explicit(object, operand, memory_order_seq_cst)
> 
> so __atomic_fetch_add would occur.
> 
> But so far I do not see the problem with -r335782 reverted. I last built
> -r336693 last night via devel/amd64-gcc (via xtoolchain).
> 
> From what I can tell FreeBSD defines:
> 
> #if !defined(__CLANG_ATOMICS)
> #define	_Atomic(T)			struct { volatile T __val; }
> #endif
> 
> and that struct is being used in &(object)->__val is what the
> error reports are about. So that would be, for example,
> 
> &(&lock->cnt)->__val
> 
> This would appear to suggest that __val itself had a type meeting:
> 
> operand type struct <anonymous>
> 
> for T in _Atomic(T) .
> 
> (This is independent of just what the issue traces back to: just
> the net result on ci.freebsd.org . No claim that you are right
> or wrong here. I'll not be looking any more until this afternoon
> or night.)

Going in a somewhat different direction . . .

Looking around I found https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26462
which is titled:

26462 – GCC/clang C11 _Atomic incompatibility

It appears that the normal source of platform ABI definitions are
not explicit/detailed in the area and allow for incompatibilities
in this area. clang and gcc made differing choices absent being
constrained to match.

An example (a powerpc64 context was indicated):

struct A16 { char val[16]; }; 
_Atomic struct A16 a16; 
// GCC:
_Static_assert(_Alignof(a16) == 16, ""); 
// Clang:
_Static_assert(_Alignof(a16) == 1, ""); 


Non-power-of-2 is a general problem
(not a powerpc64 context from what I can
tell):

struct A3 { char val[3]; };
_Atomic struct A3 a3;
// GCC:
_Static_assert(sizeof(a3) == 3, "");
_Static_assert(_Alignof(a3) == 1, "");
// Clang:
_Static_assert(sizeof(a3) == 4, "");
_Static_assert(_Alignof(a3) == 4, "");



Comment 6 (by John McCall) is relevant:

QUOTE
Anyway, while I prefer the Clang rule, the GCC rule is defensible, as are any number of other rules.  The important point, however, is that having this discussion is not the right approach to solving this problem.  The layout of _Atomic(T) is ABI.  ABI rules are not generally determined by compiler implementors making things up as they go along, or at least they shouldn't be.  The Darwin ABI for _Atomic is the rule implemented in Clang, which we actually did think about carefully when we adopted it.  Other platforms need to make their own call, and it probably shouldn't just be "whatever's implemented in GCC", especially on other platforms where GCC is not the system compiler.
END QUOTE


(I do nto claim to have proivided all the material that should
be read in https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26462 .)

It may be that FreeBSD needs to be the source of the ABI definitions
involved if clang and gcc freeBSD builds are to be interoperable in
this area. But this could mean avoiding builtins?

If any of this is inlined and so not behind a more stable interface,
it looks like clang and gcc can not be mixed for the same instances
of various _Atomic possibilities.


===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
( dsl-only.net went
away in early 2018-Mar)
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