arsenm added a comment.

In D71726#1801346 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D71726#1801346>, @__simt__ wrote:

> In D71726#1792852 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D71726#1792852>, @yaxunl wrote:
>
> > In D71726#1791904 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D71726#1791904>, @jfb wrote:
> >
> > > This generally seems fine. Does it work on most backends? I want to make 
> > > sure it doesn't fail in backends :)
> >
> >
> > For x86_64, amdgcn, aarch64, armv7, mips64, it is translated to cmpxchg by 
> > AtomicExpandPass and backends did codegen successfully.
> >
> > For hexagon, riscv32, it is translated to call of `__atomic_fetch_add_4` 
> > for fadd float. This is concerning. Probably we need to add 
> > `__atomic_fetch_{add|sub}_{f16|f32|f64}` ?
>
>
> For systems that have load-link/store-conditional architectures, like ARM / 
> PPC / base RISC-V without extension, I would imagine that using a cmpxchg 
> loop is much worse than simply doing the floating-point add/sub in the middle 
> of the atomic mini-transaction. I'm sure that we want back-ends to be capable 
> of implementing this better than what this pass is doing, even when they 
> don't have "native" fp atomics.
>
> You listed amdgcn... what does this do on nvptx?


Targets can implement shouldExpandAtomicRMWInIR for the desired behavior, which 
NVPTX currently does not implement. Looking at AtomicExpandPass, it looks like 
either cmpxchg or LLSC expansions should work for the FP atomics already


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