Looks like sparc64 broke for libgo when parallel garbage collection was introduced. This patch is an attempt to get it working again. Bootstrapped and ran Go testsuite on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, not that that proves much. Committed to mainline.
Ian
diff -r b8ae4def7c14 libgo/runtime/lfstack.c --- a/libgo/runtime/lfstack.c Thu Jan 24 11:43:43 2013 -0800 +++ b/libgo/runtime/lfstack.c Fri Jan 25 15:41:18 2013 -0800 @@ -15,6 +15,15 @@ # define PTR_BITS 32 #endif #define PTR_MASK ((1ull<<PTR_BITS)-1) +#define CNT_MASK (0ull-1) + +#if __SIZEOF_POINTER__ == 8 && defined(__sparc__) +// SPARC64 uses all 64 bits of virtual addresses. Use low-order three +bits as ABA counter. +#define PTR_BITS 0 +#define CNT_MASK 7 +#define PTR_MASK ((0ull-1)<<3) +#endif void runtime_lfstackpush(uint64 *head, LFNode *node) @@ -27,7 +36,7 @@ } node->pushcnt++; - new = (uint64)(uintptr)node|(((uint64)node->pushcnt)<<PTR_BITS); + new = (uint64)(uintptr)node|(((uint64)node->pushcnt&CNT_MASK)<<PTR_BITS); old = runtime_atomicload64(head); for(;;) { node->next = (LFNode*)(uintptr)(old&PTR_MASK); @@ -50,7 +59,7 @@ node2 = runtime_atomicloadp(&node->next); new = 0; if(node2 != nil) - new = (uint64)(uintptr)node2|(((uint64)node2->pushcnt)<<PTR_BITS); + new = (uint64)(uintptr)node2|(((uint64)node2->pushcnt&CNT_MASK)<<PTR_BITS); if(runtime_cas64(head, &old, new)) return node; }