Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 11:16:04 +0300 From: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r353296 - head/sys/powerpc/include Message-ID: <20191008081604.GZ44691@kib.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <201910080136.x981aYTq073145@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201910080136.x981aYTq073145@repo.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 01:36:34AM +0000, Justin Hibbits wrote: > Author: jhibbits > Date: Tue Oct 8 01:36:34 2019 > New Revision: 353296 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/353296 > > Log: > powerpc: Implement atomic_(f)cmpset_ for short and char > | > This adds two implementations for each atomic_fcmpset_ and atomic_cmpset_ > short and char functions, selectable at compile time for the target > architecture. By default, it uses a generic shift-and-mask to perform atomic > updates to sub-components of 32-bit words from <sys/_atomic_subword.h>. > However, if ISA_206_ATOMICS is defined it uses the ll/sc instructions for > halfword and bytes, introduced in PowerISA 2.06. These instructions are > supported by all IBM processors from POWER7 on, as well as the Freescale/NXP > e6500 core. Although the e5500 and e500mc both implement PowerISA 2.06 they > do not implement these instructions. > > As part of this, clean up the atomic_(f)cmpset_acq and _rel wrappers, by > using macros to reduce code duplication. > > ISA_206_ATOMICS requires clang or newer binutils (2.20 or later). Why don't you use normal word-sized ll/sc tlwarx/stwcx, and only modifying the part of the register as needed ? This would work on all supported CPUs, right ? When kevans did the _atomic_subword.h, one of the arches involved was sparc64, which does not have ll/sc. Also for MIPS there are some fine details which might mean that C implementation is less work than using word-sized ll/sc. But why for power ?
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