On 22 Aug 2018, at 18:45, Hans Wennborg <h...@chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 3:48 AM, Dimitry Andric <dimi...@andric.com> wrote:
>> On 22 Aug 2018, at 05:58, Wei Mi <w...@google.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 1:27 PM, Dimitry Andric <dimi...@andric.com> wrote:
>>> On 16 Aug 2018, at 00:51, Joerg Sonnenberger via llvm-dev 
>>> <llvm-...@lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 09:49:16PM +0200, Dimitry Andric via llvm-dev 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> This is a regression caused by https://reviews.llvm.org/rL323281:
>>>>> 
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> r323281 | wmi | 2018-01-23 23:27:57 +0000 (Tue, 23 Jan 2018) | 12 lines
>>>>> 
>>>>> Adjust MaxAtomicInlineWidth for i386/i486 targets.
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is to fix the bug reported in 
>>>>> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34347#c6.
>>>>> Currently, all  MaxAtomicInlineWidth of x86-32 targets are set to 64. 
>>>>> However,
>>>>> i386 doesn't support any cmpxchg related instructions. i486 only supports 
>>>>> cmpxchg.
>>>>> So in this patch MaxAtomicInlineWidth is reset as follows:
>>>>> For i386, the MaxAtomicInlineWidth should be 0 because no cmpxchg is 
>>>>> supported.
>>>>> For i486, the MaxAtomicInlineWidth should be 32 because it supports 
>>>>> cmpxchg.
>>>>> For others 32 bits x86 cpu, the MaxAtomicInlineWidth should be 64 because 
>>>>> of cmpxchg8b.
>>>> 
>>>> This seems to be somewhat undesirable. Does *anyone* care about real
>>>> i386 support at this point? NetBSD certainly doesn't and I think we are
>>>> already the odd man for a number of cases like this.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Yes, and since this causes quite a number of regressions for us, I would
>>> really prefer this revision to be reverted, at least in the 7.0.0
>>> branch.  I have already reverted it locally in our FreeBSD project
>>> branch for importing llvm/clang 7.0.0.  Hans, what is your opinion about
>>> this?
>>> 
>>> -Dimitry
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sorry I missed the thread for quite a while. Dimitry, I am very confused 
>>> because you reported the issue in 
>>> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34347#c6, so you want r323281 to be 
>>> reverted and let llvm to generate cmxchg8b instruction for i486?
>> 
>> Since it's been doing this for a number of years now, I don't think it would 
>> be bad at all, at least not for FreeBSD.  At least, a lot more effort is 
>> needed to supply properly working atomic libcalls for 64 bit values on i386. 
>>  (They can't be implemented without at least a bit of kernel assistance.)
> 
> According to the release schedule we should tag RC2 today. Do you
> think there's any chance of getting this figured out by today?

Since I'm testing on FreeBSD 11.x, and that will take quite a while to get any 
new changes, I'd say it's safer to revert for now, at least on the branch.  At 
least then I can build and test the RCs on i386-freebsd. :)

-Dimitry

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