On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 at 20:32, Richard Henderson <richard.hender...@linaro.org> wrote: > > v1: > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20221118094754.242910-1-richard.hender...@linaro.org/ > v2: > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20230216025739.1211680-1-richard.hender...@linaro.org/ > > Based-on: 20230424054105.1579315-1-richard.hender...@linaro.org > ("[PATCH v3 00/57] tcg: Simplify calls to load/store helpers") > > The main objective here is to support Arm FEAT_LSE2, which says that any > single memory access that does not cross a 16-byte boundary is atomic. > This is the MO_ATOM_WITHIN16 control. > > While I'm touching all of this, a secondary objective is to handle the > atomicity of the IBM machines. Both Power and s390x treat misaligned > accesses as atomic on the lsb of the pointer. For instance, an 8-byte > access at ptr % 8 == 4 will appear as two atomic 4-byte accesses, and > ptr % 4 == 2 will appear as four 3-byte accesses.
I hope you mean "four 2-byte accesses", although I'm never quite sure how odd s390x can get :-) -- PMM
