On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Maxim Kuvyrkov <ma...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > This patch series adds necessary patterns for __atomic_compare_exchange[_n], > __atomic_exchange[_n] and __atomic_fetch_add builtins. These are the > builtins that correspond to inline assembly that MIPS GLIBC port is using. > > The patches were originally developed by Tom de Vries a while ago, and I've > rewrote parts of them to be better suited for upstream. > > The second patch adds XLP-specific patterns to support its swap and ldadd > instructions. Unfortunately, there seem to be a problem in reload that > prevents reload from properly spilling address for these two patterns. I > will work with reload experts on investigating and fixing this problem, but, > meanwhile, the patch contains a workaround that avoids the problem. > > The third patch is a small optimization to alleviate > __atomic_compare_exchange[_n] builtins being a use-one-for-all solutions. > These builtins return both boolean "success" and "oldval" results. As most > cases use only one of the results, this optimizations looks at REG_UNUSED > notes to determine if instructions to set these results can be omitted. > > The patch series was tested by running GLIBC testsuite for n32, n64 and o32 > ABIs on XLP and [in-progress] non-XLP MIPS boards with no regressions with a > corresponding patch to MIPS GLIBC port to use the new atomic builtins.
Once this goes in, I will most likely start adding the Octeon+ and Octeon2 specific atomic instructions support. Thanks, Andrew Pinski > > -- > Maxim Kuvyrkov > CodeSourcery / Mentor Graphics > > >
