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Documentation improvement and minor code cleanups for the latch facility.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 9 Aug 2011 19:30:45 +0000 (15:30 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Tue, 9 Aug 2011 19:30:45 +0000 (15:30 -0400)
commit4e15a4db5e65e43271f8d20750d6500ab12632d0
tree453d328ca3280a79869da3d489a86a0703c87f89
parentcff60f2dfa470d5736a19d36eb910844e31db764
Documentation improvement and minor code cleanups for the latch facility.

Improve the documentation around weak-memory-ordering risks, and do a pass
of general editorialization on the comments in the latch code.  Make the
Windows latch code more like the Unix latch code where feasible; in
particular provide the same Assert checks in both implementations.
Fix poorly-placed WaitLatch call in syncrep.c.

This patch resolves, for the moment, concerns around weak-memory-ordering
bugs in latch-related code: we have documented the restrictions and checked
that existing calls meet them.  In 9.2 I hope that we will install suitable
memory barrier instructions in SetLatch/ResetLatch, so that their callers
don't need to be quite so careful.
src/backend/port/unix_latch.c
src/backend/port/win32_latch.c
src/backend/replication/syncrep.c
src/backend/storage/lmgr/proc.c
src/include/storage/latch.h