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Re: [PATCH] S/390: Hardware transactional memory support
- From: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- To: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:26:48 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] S/390: Hardware transactional memory support
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On 02/08/13 16:23, Peter Bergner wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 15:16 +0200, Andreas Krebbel wrote:
>> Since libitm implements TX begins as function calls only call-saved registers can be live across a
>> tbegin. But all the call-saved FPRs are saved in _ITM_beginTransaction and get restored when doing
>> the longjmp back into the user code. So this should be no problem.
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> Except that the htm_begin() routines are declared static inline functions,
> so when they're inlined, you aren't protected by the semantics of a call
> anymore, are you?
They get inlined into libitm code but not into the user code. As I understand it in the user code
will always be a call to _ITM_beginTransaction.
-Andreas-
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