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authorEli Friedman <eli.friedman@gmail.com>2011-08-10 20:17:43 +0000
committerEli Friedman <eli.friedman@gmail.com>2011-08-10 20:17:43 +0000
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Changes per Jeffrey's comments.
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@@ -138,14 +138,16 @@ instructions has been clarified in the IR.</p>
those optimizations useful.</p>
<p>Acquire provides a barrier of the sort necessary to acquire a lock to access
- other memory with normal loads and stores. This corresponds to the
- C++0x/C1x <code>memory_order_acquire</code>. This is a low-level
+ other memory with normal loads and stores. This corresponds to the
+ C++0x/C1x <code>memory_order_acquire</code>. It should also be used for
+ C++0x/C1x <code>memory_order_consume</code>. This is a low-level
synchronization primitive. In general, optimizers should treat this like
a nothrow call.</p>
<p>Release is similar to Acquire, but with a barrier of the sort necessary to
- release a lock.This corresponds to the C++0x/C1x
- <code>memory_order_release</code>.</p>
+ release a lock. This corresponds to the C++0x/C1x
+ <code>memory_order_release</code>. In general, optimizers should treat this
+ like a nothrow call.</p>
<p>AcquireRelease (<code>acq_rel</code> in IR) provides both an Acquire and a Release barrier.
This corresponds to the C++0x/C1x <code>memory_order_acq_rel</code>. In general,
@@ -171,8 +173,9 @@ instructions has been clarified in the IR.</p>
<p><code>cmpxchg</code> and <code>atomicrmw</code> are essentially like an
atomic load followed by an atomic store (where the store is conditional for
- <code>cmpxchg</code>), but no other memory operation operation can happen
- between the load and store.</p>
+ <code>cmpxchg</code>), but no other memory operation can happen between
+ the load and store. Note that our cmpxchg does not have quite as many
+ options for making cmpxchg weaker as the C++0x version.</p>
<p>A <code>fence</code> provides Acquire and/or Release ordering which is not
part of another operation; it is normally used along with Monotonic memory
@@ -203,7 +206,7 @@ instructions has been clarified in the IR.</p>
Unordered. This would be checked, for example, by LICM before hoisting
an operation.
<li>mayReadFromMemory()/mayWriteToMemory(): Existing predicate, but note
- that they returns true for any operation which is volatile or at least
+ that they return true for any operation which is volatile or at least
Monotonic.
<li>Alias analysis: Note that AA will return ModRef for anything Acquire or
Release, and for the address accessed by any Monotonic operation.