llvm/lib/Target/XCore
Robin Morisset d310963833 Erase fence insertion from SelectionDAGBuilder.cpp (NFC)
Summary:
Backends can use setInsertFencesForAtomic to signal to the middle-end that
montonic is the only memory ordering they can accept for
stores/loads/rmws/cmpxchg. The code lowering those accesses with a stronger
ordering to fences + monotonic accesses is currently living in
SelectionDAGBuilder.cpp. In this patch I propose moving this logic out of it
for several reasons:
- There is lots of redundancy to avoid: extremely similar logic already
  exists in AtomicExpand.
- The current code in SelectionDAGBuilder does not use any target-hooks, it
  does the same transformation for every backend that requires it
- As a result it is plain *unsound*, as it was apparently designed for ARM.
  It happens to mostly work for the other targets because they are extremely
  conservative, but Power for example had to switch to AtomicExpand to be
  able to use lwsync safely (see r218331).
- Because it produces IR-level fences, it cannot be made sound ! This is noted
  in the C++11 standard (section 29.3, page 1140):
```
Fences cannot, in general, be used to restore sequential consistency for atomic
operations with weaker ordering semantics.
```
It can also be seen by the following example (called IRIW in the litterature):
```
atomic<int> x = y = 0;
int r1, r2, r3, r4;
Thread 0:
  x.store(1);
Thread 1:
  y.store(1);
Thread 2:
  r1 = x.load();
  r2 = y.load();
Thread 3:
  r3 = y.load();
  r4 = x.load();
```
r1 = r3 = 1 and r2 = r4 = 0 is impossible as long as the accesses are all seq_cst.
But if they are lowered to monotonic accesses, no amount of fences can prevent it..

This patch does three things (I could cut it into parts, but then some of them
would not be tested/testable, please tell me if you would prefer that):
- it provides a default implementation for emitLeadingFence/emitTrailingFence in
terms of IR-level fences, that mimic the original logic of SelectionDAGBuilder.
As we saw above, this is unsound, but the best that can be done without knowing
the targets well (and there is a comment warning about this risk).
- it then switches Mips/Sparc/XCore to use AtomicExpand, relying on this default
implementation (that exactly replicates the logic of SelectionDAGBuilder, so no
functional change)
- it finally erase this logic from SelectionDAGBuilder as it is dead-code.

Ideally, each target would define its own override for emitLeading/TrailingFence
using target-specific fences, but I do not know the Sparc/Mips/XCore memory model
well enough to do this, and they appear to be dealing fine with the ARM-inspired
default expansion for now (probably because they are overly conservative, as
Power was). If anyone wants to compile fences more agressively on these
platforms, the long comment should make it clear why he should first override
emitLeading/TrailingFence.

Test Plan: make check-all, no functional change

Reviewers: jfb, t.p.northover

Subscribers: aemerson, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D5474

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@219957 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-10-16 20:34:57 +00:00
..
Disassembler
InstPrinter
MCTargetDesc
TargetInfo
CMakeLists.txt
LLVMBuild.txt
Makefile
README.txt
XCore.h
XCore.td
XCoreAsmPrinter.cpp
XCoreCallingConv.td
XCoreFrameLowering.cpp Eliminate some deep std::vector copies. NFC. 2014-10-03 18:33:16 +00:00
XCoreFrameLowering.h
XCoreFrameToArgsOffsetElim.cpp
XCoreInstrFormats.td
XCoreInstrInfo.cpp
XCoreInstrInfo.h
XCoreInstrInfo.td
XCoreISelDAGToDAG.cpp
XCoreISelLowering.cpp
XCoreISelLowering.h
XCoreLowerThreadLocal.cpp
XCoreMachineFunctionInfo.cpp
XCoreMachineFunctionInfo.h
XCoreMCInstLower.cpp
XCoreMCInstLower.h
XCoreRegisterInfo.cpp
XCoreRegisterInfo.h
XCoreRegisterInfo.td
XCoreSelectionDAGInfo.cpp
XCoreSelectionDAGInfo.h
XCoreSubtarget.cpp
XCoreSubtarget.h
XCoreTargetMachine.cpp Erase fence insertion from SelectionDAGBuilder.cpp (NFC) 2014-10-16 20:34:57 +00:00
XCoreTargetMachine.h Reverting NFC changes from r218050. Instead, the warning was disabled for GCC in r218059, so these changes are no longer required. 2014-09-18 17:34:23 +00:00
XCoreTargetObjectFile.cpp
XCoreTargetObjectFile.h
XCoreTargetStreamer.h
XCoreTargetTransformInfo.cpp

To-do
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* Instruction encodings
* Tailcalls
* Investigate loop alignment
* Add builtins