On 11/13/22 13:41, Philipp Tomsich wrote:
The Zihintpause extension uses an opcode from the 'fence' opcode range to add a true hint instruction (i.e. if it is not supported on any given platform, the 'fence' that is encoded will not enforce any specific ordering on memory accesses) for entering a low-power state (e.g. in an idle thread). We expose this new instruction through a machine-dependent builtin to allow generating it without a requirement for any inline assembly. Given that the encoding of 'pause' is valid (as a 'fence' encoding) even for processors that do not (yet) support Zihintpause, we make this builtin available without any further TARGET_* constraints. gcc/ChangeLog: * config/riscv/riscv-builtins.cc (struct riscv_builtin_description): add the pause machine-dependent builtin with no result and no arguments; mark it as always present (pause is a true hint that encodes into a fence-insn, if not supported with the new pause semantics). * config/riscv/riscv-ftypes.def: Add type for void -> void. * config/riscv/riscv.md (riscv_pause): Add risc_pause and UNSPECV_PAUSE * doc/gcc/extensions-to-the-c-language-family/target-builtins/risc-v-built-in-functions.rst: Document. * optabs.cc (maybe_gen_insn): Allow nops == 0 (void -> void). gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog: * gcc.target/riscv/builtin_pause.c: New test.
OK. Though I think you'll need to adjust the doc patch now with the sphinx work reverted.
Jeff