[MarkRose]

The twopmodq128, twopmodq128_96, twopmodq160, twopmodq192 and twopmodq256 routines (and the plain variants in twopmodq80.c) keep the exponent-dependent setup in function-level static variables: psave, pshift, start_index, zshift, first_entry. The Mfactor worker threads all call them, so those variables are shared between threads. That is a data race, and it can give a wrong answer, because of the order of the writes. Taking twopmodq192_q4 as the example:

if(first_entry || !CMPEQ192(p, psave))
{
	first_entry = FALSE;
	psave  = p;
	... compute pshift, start_index, zshift ...
}

psave is written before pshift, start_index and zshift are computed. A second thread that arrives in that window sees psave == p, skips the setup, and runs the powering with the values the previous exponent left behind (or zeros on the very first call). The result is a wrong residue, with no error. For a trial factoring run that means a missed factor, or a false candidate.

This was first noticed as ThreadSanitizer reports on Mfactor_3word -m 521 -bmax 20 -nthread 4 (twopmodq192_q4), which I came across while reviewing #391.

Change

psave, pshift, start_index, zshift, first_entry (and mmpsave in twopmodq192_q4_qmmp) become thread-local in those routines, declared static THREAD_LOCAL, using a new generic THREAD_LOCAL qualifier in platform.h (next to where MULTITHREAD is set) that any other per-thread variable can use: __thread for GCC and Clang, _Thread_local for other C11 compilers, nothing when MULTITHREAD is not defined (so it is plain static there), and an #error if a multithreaded build has neither. Each thread then does its own setup once per exponent, which costs nothing measurable next to the powering loop.

The SIMD routines have the same problem, so they are covered too (second commit): twopmodq78_3WORD_DOUBLE_q2/q4/q8/q16/q32/q64 in twopmodq80.c and the AVX-512 twopmodq100_2WORD_DOUBLE_q32 in twopmodq100.c. Their psave/pshift/start_index/zshift have the same psave-first ordering, and they also assign a shared static sc_ptr on every call and then derive their per-thread scratch pointers from it, so one thread can pick up another thread's scratch block. Those become thread-local as well. first_entry, sc_arr and __r0 stay shared on purpose: the single-threaded init call (init_sse2, thr_id == -1) sets them up once before any worker runs. twopmodq96.c has no such cache, so it is unchanged.

These routines are only dispatched in a build with -DUSE_FLOAT and no USE_FMADD (factor.h forbids the combination), that is sse2 or avx with USE_FLOAT added, which no default build or CI job uses; AVX2 and AVX-512 builds take the FMADD path (twopmodq100), where only the AVX-512 q32 routine has this cache.

Testing

A small harness calls the routine from 4 threads at once, released by a barrier, and switches the exponent every round, so every round hits the first-call-after-the-exponent-changes path. Each exponent has a known factor, so the correct answer is known. 20000 rounds x 4 threads = 80000 calls per run:

routine	before	after
twopmodq192_q4	29, 50, 50, 53, 92, 123 wrong results (6 runs)	0 wrong (5 runs)
twopmodq128_q4	49, 57, 61 wrong (3 runs)	0 wrong (3 runs)

ThreadSanitizer (clang, -Og, Mfactor -m 521 -bmax 20 -nthread 4), counting runs with any report:

build	before	after
Mfactor_3word	6 of 15 (all in twopmodq192_q4)	0 of 30
Mfactor_4word	1 of 15 (twopmodq256)	0 of 30
default, 1word, 2word	0 of 15	not rerun

The default, 1word, 2word, 3word, 4word and nword builds all still pass the Mfactor self-tests and a threaded run. I also compiled the six changed files with gcc, clang and x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc, with and without -DUSE_THREADS.

An end-to-end check that a real run misses a factor is not something I managed: in a real run the exposure is only the first calls after the exponent is set (the window above), so I would expect it to be rare, and on main Mfactor does not report the small test factors I tried even without this change, so those could not be used as a positive control.

Overlap with other open PRs

No open PR changes this. #185, #212, #213, #292, #313, #342 touch the same files (other functions or lines); this merges cleanly with each of them one at a time.

SIMD routines test

Mfactor_1word -m 2147483647 -bmin 70 -bmax 70.02 -nthread 4, clang with -fsanitize=thread, built as avx with -DUSE_FLOAT (and -DTRYQ=2, 8, 16, plus the default 4), before and after the second commit: before, TSan reports 4 data races in twopmodq78_3WORD_DOUBLE_q4 in 5 of 5 runs (the psave write at twopmodq80.c:1991 against the read at 1988, and the shared sc_ptr assignment at 2102), exit status 66; after, 0 reports in 10 of 10 runs at TRYQ=4, and 0 in 3 of 3 runs at each of TRYQ=2, 8 and 16 (the same builds before the commit: 4 reports in 3 of 3 runs each). The AVX-512 q32 routine compiles with gcc, clang and mingw, and an avx512 Mfactor build runs under SDE (-skx) with the same factor count and trial-divide count at 1 and 4 threads, but I did not build a TSan or wrong-answer probe for it, because TSan does not run under SDE.

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  • Improved reliability of concurrent modular arithmetic calculations by keeping cached calculation state separate for each thread.
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  • Concurrent calls now maintain their own setup state, helping prevent one thread’s calculations from affecting another’s.

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Cached exponent and shift state in modular exponentiation routines now uses thread-local storage. The new THREAD_LOCAL macro selects a supported mechanism in multithreaded builds and expands to nothing in single-threaded builds.

Changes: Thread-local cache storage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define the thread-local storage macro src/platform.h, src/factor.h	Adds THREAD_LOCAL for multithreaded and single-threaded builds. A comment describes cached setup state and initialization.
Apply thread-local storage to cached state src/twopmodq128.c, src/twopmodq128_96.c, src/twopmodq160.c, src/twopmodq192.c, src/twopmodq256.c, src/twopmodq80.c, src/twopmodq100.c	Changes cached exponent and shift state to thread-local storage. In SIMD routines, selected scratch pointers also become thread-local, while allocation pointers and some initialization flags remain static.

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Major · Make sc_ptr local to each call. · twopmodq80.c:1254-1274

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Make sc_ptr local to each call.

In a multithreaded TRYQ=2 floating-point build, workers can overwrite sc_ptr while another worker derives its scratch pointers. This can mix worker storage and produce incorrect results, including missed factors.

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-		static double *sc_arr = 0x0, *sc_ptr;
+		static double *sc_arr = 0x0;
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Make `sc_ptr` local to each call in the `MULTITHREAD` scratch-pointer setup,
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[MarkRose]

On the outside-diff comment about sc_ptr in twopmodq80.c (the TRYQ=2 routine): you are right, and it was the same kind of bug. sc_ptr was a function-level static, assigned on every call (sc_ptr = __r0 + thr_id*0x2c) and then used to derive that call's scratch pointers, so a second thread could overwrite it in between and one thread would run on another's scratch block. TSan showed it as a write/write race on the pointer in q4, and the other routines have the same declaration.

Rather than make it a plain local, which would lose the value the init call stores in it for the non-MULTITHREAD path, 8c5cc05 makes sc_ptr thread-local (TWOPMODQ_TLS) in q2, q4, q8, q16, q32, q64 and the AVX-512 twopmodq100 q32, and keeps sc_arr and __r0 shared, because the single-threaded init call sets them once before any worker runs. In a MULTITHREAD build each worker assigns its own sc_ptr before using it, so the result is the same as the local you suggested. The TRYQ=2 build under TSan with four threads goes from reports in 3 of 3 runs to 0 in 3 of 3.

[tdulcet]

Thanks for fixing this. It looks good to me.

I do not believe Mfactor was ever fully tested with multithreading, as for example the savefiles also do not support multithreaded builds.

[ldesnogu]

I'm not a big fan of this dedicated define: a generic such define could apply to all variables that require TLS, not only TWOPMODQ ones.

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Good point, done in 12f861b. There is now a generic THREAD_LOCAL in platform.h, next to where MULTITHREAD is set. It expands to __thread (or C11 _Thread_local) in a multithreaded build and to nothing otherwise, and the twopmodq caches are declared static THREAD_LOCAL. factor.h keeps only the comment explaining why those caches need it. Nothing else in src/ used thread-local storage before, so there was nothing else to convert. The generated code is the same. I rebuilt and re-ran ThreadSanitizer with four threads: 10 of 10 clean runs each for 3word and 4word, and 5 of 5 for the avx + USE_FLOAT SIMD build. readelf shows the caches as TLS symbols in both binaries, and gcc, clang and mingw compile the changed files in single- and multithreaded builds for every SIMD mode.

[ldesnogu]

LGTM thanks

[tdulcet]

Thanks.