Hi,
> The __sync builtin based implementation generates full memory
> barriers ('dmb ish') on Arm platforms. Using C11 atomic builtins
> to generate one way barriers.
>
> Here is the assembly code of __sync_compare_and_swap builtin.
> __sync_bool_compare_and_swap(dst, exp, src);
> 0x000000000090f1b0 <+16>: e0 07 40 f9 ldr x0, [sp, #8]
> 0x000000000090f1b4 <+20>: e1 0f 40 79 ldrh w1, [sp, #6]
> 0x000000000090f1b8 <+24>: e2 0b 40 79 ldrh w2, [sp, #4]
> 0x000000000090f1bc <+28>: 21 3c 00 12 and w1, w1, #0xffff
> 0x000000000090f1c0 <+32>: 03 7c 5f 48 ldxrh w3, [x0]
> 0x000000000090f1c4 <+36>: 7f 00 01 6b cmp w3, w1
> 0x000000000090f1c8 <+40>: 61 00 00 54 b.ne 0x90f1d4
> <rte_atomic16_cmpset+52> // b.any
> 0x000000000090f1cc <+44>: 02 fc 04 48 stlxrh w4, w2, [x0]
> 0x000000000090f1d0 <+48>: 84 ff ff 35 cbnz w4, 0x90f1c0
> <rte_atomic16_cmpset+32>
> 0x000000000090f1d4 <+52>: bf 3b 03 d5 dmb ish
> 0x000000000090f1d8 <+56>: e0 17 9f 1a cset w0, eq // eq = none
>
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Hu <[email protected]>
> Tested-by: Joyce Kong <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <[email protected]>
> ---
Wouldn't it be plausible to change _try_ functions to use __atomic too (for
consistency)?
Apart from that looks good to me.
Konstantin
