[PATCH, AArch64, v3 4/6] aarch64: Add out-of-line functions for LSE atomics

Kyrill Tkachov kyrylo.tkachov@foss.arm.com
Thu Sep 5 12:53:00 GMT 2019


On 9/5/19 1:12 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 9/5/19 3:00 AM, Kyrill Tkachov wrote:
>>> +/* Define the symbol gating the LSE implementations.  */
>>> +extern _Bool __aa64_have_atomics
>>> +    __attribute__((visibility("hidden"), nocommon));
>>> +
>> Bootstrapping this patch series on an Armv8-A system with OOL atomics enabled
>> by default gave me link errors
>>
>> when building libgomp about __aa64_have_atomics being undefined.
>>
>> I haven't followed the series from the start so maybe I'm missing some things,
>> but I don't see where this variable is supposed to "live"?
> Removing the extern here is the correct fix.
>
> Obviously the v3 patch set conversion from C to assembly wasn't properly
> tested, or I made some last-minute changes before posting.  Time has erased
> that memory.
>
>> Removing the 'extern' from here allows the bootstrap to proceed but it fails at
>> a later stage with bizzare errors like:
>>
>> In file included from build/gencondmd.c:51:
>> $SRC/gcc/config/aarch64/constraints.md: In function ‘bool
>> satisfies_constraint_S(rtx)’:
>> $SRC/gcc/config/aarch64/constraints.md:120:10: error: ‘C’ was not declared in
>> this scope; did you mean ‘PC’?
>>    120 | (define_constraint "Y"
>>        |          ^
>>        |          PC
>>
>> which looks like a miscompilation of sorts.
> I noticed a couple of typos in the assembly that used the wrong register form
> (wN vs xN) on the LSE instructions.  By chance were you testing on a system
> with LSE instructions enabled?

No, it was an Armv8.0-A system without LSE.

If you need help with testing I'd be happy to help!

Kyrill


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> r~



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