ordering semantic of x86 CPUs makes only the compiler barrier
neccessary to give the acquire behaviour.
Existing implementation ensured sequentially consistent semantic for
load_acq, making much stronger guarantee than required by standard's
definition of the load acquire. Consumers which depend on the barrier
are believed to be identified and already fixed to use proper
operations.
Noted by: alc (long time ago)
Reviewed by: alc, bde
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
provide a semantic defined by the C11 fences with corresponding
memory_order.
atomic_thread_fence_acq() gives r | r, w, where r and w are read and
write accesses, and | denotes the fence itself.
atomic_thread_fence_rel() is r, w | w.
atomic_thread_fence_acq_rel() is the combination of the acquire and
release in single operation. Note that reads after the acq+rel fence
could be made visible before writes preceeding the fence.
atomic_thread_fence_seq_cst() orders all accesses before/after the
fence, and the fence itself is globally ordered against other
sequentially consistent atomic operations.
Reviewed by: alc
Discussed with: bde
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 3 weeks
atomic_load_acq(9), on it source, for x86.
Right now, atomic_load_acq() on x86 is sequentially consistent with
other atomics, code ensures this by doing store/load barrier by
performing locked nop on the source. Provide separate primitive
__storeload_barrier(), which is implemented as the locked nop done on
a cpu-private variable, and put __storeload_barrier() before load, to
keep seq_cst semantic but avoid introducing false dependency on the
no-modification of the source for its later use.
Note that seq_cst property of x86 atomic_load_acq() is not documented
and not carried by atomics implementations on other architectures,
although some kernel code relies on the behaviour. This commit does
not intend to change this.
Reviewed by: alc
Discussed with: bde
Tested by: pho
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
It was actually done in r86301 but reverted in r150182 because GCC 3.x was
not able to handle it for a memory operand. Apparently, this problem was
fixed in GCC 4.1+ and several contrib sources already rely on this feature.
instruction loads/stores at its will.
The macro __compiler_membar() is currently supported for both gcc and
clang, but kernel compilation will fail otherwise.
Reviewed by: bde, kib
Discussed with: dim, theraven
MFC after: 2 weeks
locked xchg instruction. IA32 memory model guarantees that store has
release semantic, since stores cannot pass loads or stores.
Reviewed by: bde, jhb
Tested by: pho
MFC after: 2 weeks
specify their own version of atomic_cmpset_* which could have been
different than the membar version.
Right now, however, FreeBSD is bound mostly to GCC-like compilers and
it is desired to add new support and compat shim mostly when there is
a real necessity, in order to avoid too much compatibility bloats.
In this optic, bring back atomic_cmpset_{acq, rel}_* to be the same as
atomic_cmpset_* and unwind the atomic_cmpset_barr_* introduction.
Requested by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: Giovanni Trematerra <giovanni dot trematerra at
gmail dot com>
not defined through macros or similar) in order to be later compiled in
the kernel and offer this way the support for modules (and
compatibility among the UP case and SMP case).
Fix this for the newly introduced atomic_cmpset_barr_* cases by defining
and specifying a template. Note that the new DEFINE_CMPSET_GEN()
template save more typing on amd64 than the current code. [1]
- Fix the style for memory barriers on amd64.
[1] Reported by: Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail dot com>
memory barriers should also ensure that the compiler doesn't reorder paths
where they are used. GCC, however, does that aggressively, even in
presence of volatile operands. The most reliable way GCC offers for avoid
instructions reordering is clobbering "memory" even if that is
theoretically an heavy-weight operation, flushing the content of all
the registers and forcing reload of them (We could rely, however, on
gcc DTRT by just understanding the purpose as this is a well-known
pattern for many modern operating-systems).
Not all our memory barriers, right now, clobber memory for GCC-like
compilers. The most notable cases are IA32 and amd64 where the memory
barrier are treacted the same as normal atomic instructions.
Fix this by offering the possibility to implement atomic instructions
with memory barriers separately from the normal version and implement
the GCC-like specific one using memory clobbering.
Thanks to Chris Lattner (@apple) for his discussion on llvm specifics.
Reported by: jhb
Reviewed by: jhb
Tested by: rdivacky, Giovanni Trematerra
<giovanni dot trematerra at gmail dot com>
and ifnet functions
- add memory barriers to <machine/atomic.h>
- update drivers to only conditionally define their own
- add lockless producer / consumer ring buffer
- remove ring buffer implementation from cxgb and update its callers
- add if_transmit(struct ifnet *ifp, struct mbuf *m) to ifnet to
allow drivers to efficiently manage multiple hardware queues
(i.e. not serialize all packets through one ifq)
- expose if_qflush to allow drivers to flush any driver managed queues
This work was supported by Bitgravity Inc. and Chelsio Inc.
MPLOCKED. The cleaning in rev.1.25 was supposed to have been undone
by rev.1.26, but 1.26 could never have actually affected asm files
since atomic.h is full of C declarations so including it in asm files
would just give syntax errors. The asm MPLOCKED is even less needed
than when misplaced definitions of it were first removed, and is now
unused in any asm file in the src tree except in anachronismns in
sys/i386/i386/support.s.
mainly involves removing all __CC_SUPPORTS___INLINE__ ifdefs. These
ifdefs are even less needed for amd64 than for i386, but the i386
atomic.h never had them. The ifdefs here were just an optimization
of obsolescent compatibility cruft (__inline) for a null set of
compilers. I think null sets of compilers should only be supported
in cases where this is more than an optimization, doesn't require
extensive ifdefs, and only involves not-so-obsolescent compatibility
cruft (plain inline here).
These functions are used a lot for mutexes, so this reduces the text
size of an average kernel by about 0.75%. This wasn't intended to
be a significant optimization, but it somehow increased the maximum
number of packets per second that can be transmitted by my bge hardware
from 320000 to 460000 (this benchmark is CPU-bound and remarkably
sensitive to changes in the text section).
Details: we would prefer to leave the result of the cmpxchg in %al,
but cannot tell gcc that it is there, so we have to convert it to an
integer register. We converted to %al, then to %[re]ax, but the
latter step is usually wasted since gcc usually only wants the condition
code and can recover it from %al just as easily as from %[re]ax. Let
gcc promote %al in the few cases where this is needed.
Nearby style fixes;
- let gcc manage the load of `res', and don't abuse `res' for a copy of `exp'
- don't echo `res's name in comments
- consistently spell the condition code as 'e' after comparison for equality
- don't hard-code %al anywhere except in constraints
- for the version that doesn't use cmpxchg, there is no requirement to use
%al anywhere, so don't hard-code it in the constraints either.
Style non-fix:
- for the versions that use cmpxchg, keep using "a" (was %[re]ax, now %al)
for the main output operand, although this is not required. The input
and output operands that use the "a" constraint are now decoupled, and
this makes things clearer except for the reason that the output register
is hard-coded. It is now just a hack to tell gcc that the input "a" has
been clobbered without increasing the number of operands.
variable and returns the previous value of the variable.
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64, arm (cognet)
Reviewed by: arch@
Submitted by: cognet (arm)
MFC after: 1 week
constraint is actually only allowed for register operands. Instead, use
separate input and output memory constraints.
Education from: alc
Reviewed by: alc
Tested on: i386, alpha
MFC after: 1 week
variables rather than void * variables. This makes it easier and simpler
to get asm constraints and volatile keywords correct.
MFC after: 3 days
Tested on: i386, alpha, sparc64
Compiled on: ia64, powerpc, amd64
Kernel toolchain busted on: arm
further changes and fixes in the future:
- Use aliases via macros rather than duplicated inlines wherever possible.
- Move all the aliases to the bottom of these files and the inline
functions to the top.
- Add various comments.
- On alpha, drop atomic_{load_acq,store_rel}_{8,char,16,short}().
- On i386 and amd64, don't duplicate the extern declarations for functions
in the two non-inline cases (KLD_MODULE and compiler doesn't do inlines),
instead, consolidate those two cases.
- Some whitespace fixes.
Approved by: re (scottl)
place.
This moves the dependency on GCC's and other compiler's features into
the central sys/cdefs.h file, while the individual source files can
then refer to #ifdef __COMPILER_FEATURE_FOO where they by now used to
refer to #if __GNUC__ > 3.1415 && __BARC__ <= 42.
By now, GCC and ICC (the Intel compiler) have been actively tested on
IA32 platforms by netchild. Extension to other compilers is supposed
to be possible, of course.
Submitted by: netchild
Reviewed by: various developers on arch@, some time ago
- This is heavily derived from John Baldwin's apic/pci cleanup on i386.
- I have completely rewritten or drastically cleaned up some other parts.
(in particular, bootstrap)
- This is still a WIP. It seems that there are some highly bogus bioses
on nVidia nForce3-150 boards. I can't stress how broken these boards
are. I have a workaround in mind, but right now the Asus SK8N is broken.
The Gigabyte K8NPro (nVidia based) is also mind-numbingly hosed.
- Most of my testing has been with SCHED_ULE. SCHED_4BSD works.
- the apic and acpi components are 'standard'.
- If you have an nVidia nForce3-150 board, you are stuck with 'device
atpic' in addition, because they somehow managed to forget to connect the
8254 timer to the apic, even though its in the same silicon! ARGH!
This directly violates the ACPI spec.
a heavily stripped down FreeBSD/i386 (brutally stripped down actually) to
attempt to get a stable base to start from. There is a lot missing still.
Worth noting:
- The kernel runs at 1GB in order to cheat with the pmap code. pmap uses
a variation of the PAE code in order to avoid having to worry about 4
levels of page tables yet.
- It boots in 64 bit "long mode" with a tiny trampoline embedded in the
i386 loader. This simplifies locore.s greatly.
- There are still quite a few fragments of i386-specific code that have
not been translated yet, and some that I cheated and wrote dumb C
versions of (bcopy etc).
- It has both int 0x80 for syscalls (but using registers for argument
passing, as is native on the amd64 ABI), and the 'syscall' instruction
for syscalls. int 0x80 preserves all registers, 'syscall' does not.
- I have tried to minimize looking at the NetBSD code, except in a couple
of places (eg: to find which register they use to replace the trashed
%rcx register in the syscall instruction). As a result, there is not a
lot of similarity. I did look at NetBSD a few times while debugging to
get some ideas about what I might have done wrong in my first attempt.
This is most beneficial for vmware client os installs.
Reviewed by: jmallet, iedowse, tlambert2@mindspring.com
MFC After: never, -STABLE does not currently use this instruction
Some things needed bits of <i386/include/lock.h> - cy.c now has its
own (only) copy of the COM_(UN)LOCK() macros, and IMASK_(UN)LOCK()
has been moved to <i386/include/apic.h> (AKA <machine/apic.h>).
Reviewed by: jhb
non-386 atomic_load_acq(). %eax is an input since its value is used in
the cmpxchg instruction, but we don't care what value it is, so setting
it to a specific value is just wasteful. Thus, it is being used without
being initialized as the warning stated, but it is ok for it to be used
because its value isn't important. Thus, we are only sort of lying when
we say it is an output only operand.
- Add "cc" to the clobber list for atomic_load_acq() since the cmpxchgl
changes ZF.
that modules can call.
- Remove the old gcc <= 2.8 versions of the atomic ops.
- Resort the order of some things in the file so that there is only
one #ifdef for KLD_MODULE, and so that all WANT_FUNCTIONS stuff is
moved to the bottom of the file.
- Remove ATOMIC_ACQ_REL() and just use explicit macros instead.
