[ bkoz, see below ]
On 02/14/2012 04:48 AM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> BTW, why can we assume that the dispatch objects are initialized before
> we run any transactions (e.g., from within a constructor of another
> static object)? Or is this the library initialization problem that we
> still have t
On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 15:12 -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 02/13/2012 03:03 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> > -// The default TM method used when starting a new transaction.
> > -static GTM::abi_dispatch* default_dispatch = 0;
> > +// The default TM method used when starting a new transaction. I
On 02/13/2012 03:03 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> -// The default TM method used when starting a new transaction.
> -static GTM::abi_dispatch* default_dispatch = 0;
> +// The default TM method used when starting a new transaction. Initialized
> +// in number_of_threads_changed() below.
> +static std
This patch fixes a race condition in how transactions previously chose
the dispatch at transaction begin: default_dispatch in retry.cc was
read by transaction before they became either serial or nonserial
transactions (with the serial_lock). A concurrent change of
default_dispatch was possible to
