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This patch fixes performance problems on multi-core machines
as reported at <https://bugs.gnu.org/26441>.

See commit 480d374e596a0ee3fed168ab42cd84c313ad3c89 in Gnulib
by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>.

diff --git a/tests/test-lock.c b/tests/test-lock.c
index a992f64..fb18dee 100644
--- a/tests/test-lock.c
+++ b/tests/test-lock.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* Test of locking in multithreaded situations.
-   Copyright (C) 2005, 2008-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2005, 2008-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -50,6 +50,28 @@
    Uncomment this to see if the operating system has a fair scheduler.  */
 #define EXPLICIT_YIELD 1
 
+/* Whether to use 'volatile' on some variables that communicate information
+   between threads.  If set to 0, a semaphore or a lock is used to protect
+   these variables.  If set to 1, 'volatile' is used; this is theoretically
+   equivalent but can lead to much slower execution (e.g. 30x slower total
+   run time on a 40-core machine), because 'volatile' does not imply any
+   synchronization/communication between different CPUs.  */
+#define USE_VOLATILE 0
+
+#if USE_POSIX_THREADS && HAVE_SEMAPHORE_H
+/* Whether to use a semaphore to communicate information between threads.
+   If set to 0, a lock is used. If set to 1, a semaphore is used.
+   Uncomment this to reduce the dependencies of this test.  */
+# define USE_SEMAPHORE 1
+/* Mac OS X provides only named semaphores (sem_open); its facility for
+   unnamed semaphores (sem_init) does not work.  */
+# if defined __APPLE__ && defined __MACH__
+#  define USE_NAMED_SEMAPHORE 1
+# else
+#  define USE_UNNAMED_SEMAPHORE 1
+# endif
+#endif
+
 /* Whether to print debugging messages.  */
 #define ENABLE_DEBUGGING 0
 
@@ -90,6 +112,12 @@
 
 #include "glthread/thread.h"
 #include "glthread/yield.h"
+#if USE_SEMAPHORE
+# include <errno.h>
+# include <fcntl.h>
+# include <semaphore.h>
+# include <unistd.h>
+#endif
 
 #if ENABLE_DEBUGGING
 # define dbgprintf printf
@@ -103,6 +131,132 @@
 # define yield()
 #endif
 
+#if USE_VOLATILE
+struct atomic_int {
+  volatile int value;
+};
+static void
+init_atomic_int (struct atomic_int *ai)
+{
+}
+static int
+get_atomic_int_value (struct atomic_int *ai)
+{
+  return ai->value;
+}
+static void
+set_atomic_int_value (struct atomic_int *ai, int new_value)
+{
+  ai->value = new_value;
+}
+#elif USE_SEMAPHORE
+/* This atomic_int implementation can only support the values 0 and 1.
+   It is initially 0 and can be set to 1 only once.  */
+# if USE_UNNAMED_SEMAPHORE
+struct atomic_int {
+  sem_t semaphore;
+};
+#define atomic_int_semaphore(ai) (&(ai)->semaphore)
+static void
+init_atomic_int (struct atomic_int *ai)
+{
+  sem_init (&ai->semaphore, 0, 0);
+}
+# endif
+# if USE_NAMED_SEMAPHORE
+struct atomic_int {
+  sem_t *semaphore;
+};
+#define atomic_int_semaphore(ai) ((ai)->semaphore)
+static void
+init_atomic_int (struct atomic_int *ai)
+{
+  sem_t *s;
+  unsigned int count;
+  for (count = 0; ; count++)
+    {
+      char name[80];
+      /* Use getpid() in the name, so that different processes running at the
+         same time will not interfere.  Use ai in the name, so that different
+         atomic_int in the same process will not interfere.  Use a count in
+         the name, so that even in the (unlikely) case that a semaphore with
+         the specified name already exists, we can try a different name.  */
+      sprintf (name, "test-lock-%lu-%p-%u",
+               (unsigned long) getpid (), ai, count);
+      s = sem_open (name, O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600, 0);
+      if (s == SEM_FAILED)
+        {
+          if (errno == EEXIST)
+            /* Retry with a different name.  */
+            continue;
+          else
+            {
+              perror ("sem_open failed");
+              abort ();
+            }
+        }
+      else
+        {
+          /* Try not to leave a semaphore hanging around on the file system
+             eternally, if we can avoid it.  */
+          sem_unlink (name);
+          break;
+        }
+    }
+  ai->semaphore = s;
+}
+# endif
+static int
+get_atomic_int_value (struct atomic_int *ai)
+{
+  if (sem_trywait (atomic_int_semaphore (ai)) == 0)
+    {
+      if (sem_post (atomic_int_semaphore (ai)))
+        abort ();
+      return 1;
+    }
+  else if (errno == EAGAIN)
+    return 0;
+  else
+    abort ();
+}
+static void
+set_atomic_int_value (struct atomic_int *ai, int new_value)
+{
+  if (new_value == 0)
+    /* It's already initialized with 0.  */
+    return;
+  /* To set the value 1: */
+  if (sem_post (atomic_int_semaphore (ai)))
+    abort ();
+}
+#else
+struct atomic_int {
+  gl_lock_define (, lock)
+  int value;
+};
+static void
+init_atomic_int (struct atomic_int *ai)
+{
+  gl_lock_init (ai->lock);
+}
+static int
+get_atomic_int_value (struct atomic_int *ai)
+{
+  gl_lock_lock (ai->lock);
+  int ret = ai->value;
+  gl_lock_unlock (ai->lock);
+  return ret;
+}
+static void
+set_atomic_int_value (struct atomic_int *ai, int new_value)
+{
+  gl_lock_lock (ai->lock);
+  ai->value = new_value;
+  gl_lock_unlock (ai->lock);
+}
+#endif
+
 #define ACCOUNT_COUNT 4
 
 static int account[ACCOUNT_COUNT];
@@ -170,12 +324,12 @@ lock_mutator_thread (void *arg)
   return NULL;
 }
 
-static volatile int lock_checker_done;
+static struct atomic_int lock_checker_done;
 
 static void *
 lock_checker_thread (void *arg)
 {
-  while (!lock_checker_done)
+  while (get_atomic_int_value (&lock_checker_done) == 0)
     {
       dbgprintf ("Checker %p before check lock\n", gl_thread_self_pointer ());
       gl_lock_lock (my_lock);
@@ -200,7 +354,8 @@ test_lock (void)
   /* Initialization.  */
   for (i = 0; i < ACCOUNT_COUNT; i++)
     account[i] = 1000;
-  lock_checker_done = 0;
+  init_atomic_int (&lock_checker_done);
+  set_atomic_int_value (&lock_checker_done, 0);
 
   /* Spawn the threads.  */
   checkerthread = gl_thread_create (lock_checker_thread, NULL);
@@ -210,7 +365,7 @@ test_lock (void)
   /* Wait for the threads to terminate.  */
   for (i = 0; i < THREAD_COUNT; i++)
     gl_thread_join (threads[i], NULL);
-  lock_checker_done = 1;
+  set_atomic_int_value (&lock_checker_done, 1);
   gl_thread_join (checkerthread, NULL);
   check_accounts ();
 }
@@ -254,12 +409,12 @@ rwlock_mutator_thread (void *arg)
   return NULL;
 }
 
-static volatile int rwlock_checker_done;
+static struct atomic_int rwlock_checker_done;
 
 static void *
 rwlock_checker_thread (void *arg)
 {
-  while (!rwlock_checker_done)
+  while (get_atomic_int_value (&rwlock_checker_done) == 0)
     {
       dbgprintf ("Checker %p before check rdlock\n", gl_thread_self_pointer ());
       gl_rwlock_rdlock (my_rwlock);
@@ -284,7 +439,8 @@ test_rwlock (void)
   /* Initialization.  */
   for (i = 0; i < ACCOUNT_COUNT; i++)
     account[i] = 1000;
-  rwlock_checker_done = 0;
+  init_atomic_int (&rwlock_checker_done);
+  set_atomic_int_value (&rwlock_checker_done, 0);
 
   /* Spawn the threads.  */
   for (i = 0; i < THREAD_COUNT; i++)
@@ -295,7 +451,7 @@ test_rwlock (void)
   /* Wait for the threads to terminate.  */
   for (i = 0; i < THREAD_COUNT; i++)
     gl_thread_join (threads[i], NULL);
-  rwlock_checker_done = 1;
+  set_atomic_int_value (&rwlock_checker_done, 1);
   for (i = 0; i < THREAD_COUNT; i++)
     gl_thread_join (checkerthreads[i], NULL);
   check_accounts ();
@@ -356,12 +512,12 @@ reclock_mutator_thread (void *arg)
   return NULL;
 }
 
-static volatile int reclock_checker_done;
+static struct atomic_int reclock_checker_done;
 
 static void *
 reclock_checker_thread (void *arg)
 {
-  while (!reclock_checker_done)
+  while (get_atomic_int_value (&reclock_checker_done) == 0)
     {
       dbgprintf ("Checker %p before check lock\n", gl_thread_self_pointer ());
       gl_recursive_lock_lock (my_reclock);
@@ -386,7 +542,8 @@ test_recursive_lock (void)
   /* Initialization.  */
   for (i = 0; i < ACCOUNT_COUNT; i++)
     account[i] = 1000;
-  reclock_checker_done = 0;
+  init_atomic_int (&reclock_checker_done);
+  set_atomic_int_value (&reclock_checker_done, 0);
 
   /* Spawn the threads.  */
   checkerthread = gl_thread_create (reclock_checker_thread, NULL);
@@ -396,7 +553,7 @@ test_recursive_lock (void)
   /* Wait for the threads to terminate.  */
   for (i = 0; i < THREAD_COUNT; i++)
     gl_thread_join (threads[i], NULL);
-  reclock_checker_done = 1;
+  set_atomic_int_value (&reclock_checker_done, 1);
   gl_thread_join (checkerthread, NULL);
   check_accounts ();
 }