engine: graph: Use an atomic bool instead of a mutex

The isStateOK variable can be accessed concurrently as these are
supposed to be "benign" races. As such, they need to be labelled as such
so that we don't hit some undefined compiler behaviour.

Here are five good references relating to "benign" data races in golang.

1) https://web.archive.org/web/20181022150257/https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/01/06/benign-data-races-what-could-possibly-go-wrong

2) https://go.dev/ref/mem - "Informal Overview" section.

3) https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19205-01/820-0619/gecqt/index.html

4) https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/hotpar11/tech/final_files/Boehm.pdf

5) https://go.dev/doc/articles/race_detector

TL;DR: wrap your benign races with sync/atomic or eliminate them.
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James Shubin
2024-01-05 15:49:19 -05:00
parent c2f508e261
commit bc63b7608e
3 changed files with 14 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ func (obj *State) ReversalCleanup() error {
return nil // nothing to erase, we're not a reversal resource
}
if !obj.isStateOK { // did we successfully reverse?
if !obj.isStateOK.Load() { // did we successfully reverse? (mutex RLock/RUnlock)
obj.Logf("did not complete reversal") // warn
return nil
}