The messageState.mi field is atomically checked and set
in generated code to the *MessageInfo associated with that message.
However, the messageState type accesses the mi field without
any atomic loads, thus being a potential race.
We fix this by always calling a messageInfo method that performs
a atomic.LoadPointer on the *MessageInfo.
There is no performance effect from this change on x86 since
an atomic.LoadPointer is identical to a MOV instruction.
From an assembly perspective, there was no memory race previously.
However, the lack of an atomic.LoadPointer meant that the compiler
could in theory reorder the "normal" load to produce truly racy code.
Change-Id: I8afefaf35c1916872781abc0239cbb63d62edf16
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/protobuf/+/189017
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
We define MessageState, which is essentially an atomically set *MessageInfo.
By nesting this as the first field in every generated message, we can
implement the reflective methods on a *MessageState when obtained by
unsafe casting a concrete message pointer as a *MessageState.
The MessageInfo held by MessageState provides additional Go type information
to interpret the memory that comes after the contents of the MessageState.
Since we are nesting a MessageState in every message,
the memory use of every message instance grows by 8B.
On average, the body of ProtoReflect grows from 133B to 202B (+50%).
However, this is offset by XXX_Methods, which is 108B and
will be removed in a future CL. Taking into account the eventual removal
of XXX_Methods, this is a net reduction of 25%.
name old time/op new time/op delta
Name/Value-4 70.3ns ± 2% 17.5ns ± 6% -75.08% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
Name/Nil-4 70.6ns ± 3% 33.4ns ± 2% -52.66% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
name old alloc/op new alloc/op delta
Name/Value-4 16.0B ± 0% 0.0B -100.00% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
Name/Nil-4 16.0B ± 0% 0.0B -100.00% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
name old allocs/op new allocs/op delta
Name/Value-4 1.00 ± 0% 0.00 -100.00% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
Name/Nil-4 1.00 ± 0% 0.00 -100.00% (p=0.000 n=10+10)
Change-Id: I92bd58dc681c57c92612fd5ba7fc066aea34e95a
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/protobuf/+/185460
Reviewed-by: Damien Neil <dneil@google.com>
