Re: FastPathStrongRelationLocks still has an issue in HEAD

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: FastPathStrongRelationLocks still has an issue in HEAD
Date: 2014-04-07 14:20:22
Message-ID: 20140407142022.GB4161@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-04-07 10:06:07 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> I'm a bit suspicious of the patches to
> static-ify stuff, since that might cause the compiler to think it
> could move things across function calls that it hadn't thought
> move-able before, but FastPathStrongLocks references would seem to be
> the obvious candidate for that, and volatile-izing it ought to have
> fixed it. I would think.

Hm. It generally might be interesting to get a few !X86 buildfarms
running builds with LTO enabled. That might expose some dangerous
assumptions more easily.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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