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authorIvo Anjo <ivo.anjo@datadoghq.com>2024-06-21 11:48:37 +0100
committerKoichi Sasada <ko1@atdot.net>2024-07-03 18:08:57 +0900
commit64fef3b870a8ed8147654531aef4c065d8a730c6 (patch)
treeb8d3ac940795df02d11ebc0e14ca00c571f906c8 /test/ruby/test_array.rb
parent4d4ac00123aa21d3027bcd0aa0242c1bc129837e (diff)
Add explicit compiler fence when pushing frames to ensure safe profiling
**What does this PR do?** This PR tweaks the `vm_push_frame` function to add an explicit compiler fence (`atomic_signal_fence`) to ensure profilers that use signals to interrupt applications (stackprof, vernier, pf2, Datadog profiler) can safely sample from the signal handler. **Motivation:** The `vm_push_frame` was specifically tweaked in https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/3296 to initialize the a frame before updating the `cfp` pointer. But since there's nothing stopping the compiler from reordering the initialization of a frame (`*cfp =`) with the update of the cfp pointer (`ec->cfp = cfp`) we've been hesitant to rely on this on the Datadog profiler. In practice, after some experimentation + talking to folks, this reordering does not seem to happen. But since modern compilers have a way for us to exactly tell them not to do the reordering (`atomic_signal_fence`), this seems even better. I've actually extracted `vm_push_frame` into the "Compiler Explorer" website, which you can use to see the assembly output of this function across many compilers and architectures: https://godbolt.org/z/3oxd1446K On that link you can observe two things across many compilers: 1. The compilers are not reordering the writes 2. The barrier does not change the generated assembly output (== has no cost in practice) **Additional Notes:** The checks added in `configure.ac` define two new macros: * `HAVE_STDATOMIC_H` * `HAVE_DECL_ATOMIC_SIGNAL_FENCE` Since Ruby generates an arch-specific `config.h` header with these macros upon installation, this can be used by profilers and other libraries to test if Ruby was compiled with the fence enabled. **How to test the change?** As I mentioned above, you can check https://godbolt.org/z/3oxd1446K to confirm the compiled output of `vm_push_frame` does not change in most compilers (at least all that I've checked on that site).
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