[cfe-dev] FYI, Intel folks might be looking to add the __iso_volatile_Xxx family for MSVC STL <atomic> soon

JF Bastien via cfe-dev cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org
Tue Jul 30 20:58:14 PDT 2019


Eh, those aren’t the builtins I’d choose, but you do you… Reid’s implementation seems to match the quirks chosen, so I’m not sure there’s anything else to do here.


> On Jul 30, 2019, at 8:54 PM, Billy O'Neal (VC LIBS) <bion at microsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > TL;DR: what are these _iso_ things?
>  
> They are volatile ops that are guaranteed to use 1 instruction to do that load. So for x86 that means using x87, or MMX, or SSE to do the load. They also suppress the ‘volatile is affected by the /volatile:ms vs. /volatile:iso setting’ warnings. <atomic> uses these in conjunction with barrier instrinsics.
>  
> #if defined(_M_ARM) || defined(_M_ARM64)
> #define _Memory_barrier() __dmb(0xB) // inner shared data memory barrier
> #define _Compiler_or_memory_barrier() _Memory_barrier()
>  
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_STORE8(_Storage, _Value) __iso_volatile_store8(_Atomic_address_as<char>(_Storage), _Value)
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_STORE16(_Storage, _Value) __iso_volatile_store16(_Atomic_address_as<short>(_Storage), _Value)
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_STORE32(_Storage, _Value) __iso_volatile_store32(_Atomic_address_as<int>(_Storage), _Value)
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_STORE64(_Storage, _Value) __iso_volatile_store64(_Atomic_address_as<long long>(_Storage), _Value)
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_LOAD8(_Storage) __iso_volatile_load8(_Atomic_address_as<const char>(_Storage))
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_LOAD16(_Storage) __iso_volatile_load16(_Atomic_address_as<const short>(_Storage))
>  
> #elif defined(_M_IX86) || defined(_M_X64)
> // x86/x64 hardware only emits memory barriers inside _Interlocked intrinsics
> #define _Compiler_or_memory_barrier() _Compiler_barrier()
>  
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_STORE8(_Storage, _Value) (*_Atomic_address_as<char>(_Storage) = _Value)
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_STORE16(_Storage, _Value) (*_Atomic_address_as<short>(_Storage) = _Value)
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_STORE32(_Storage, _Value) (*_Atomic_address_as<long>(_Storage) = _Value)
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_STORE64(_Storage, _Value) (*_Atomic_address_as<long long>(_Storage) = _Value)
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_LOAD8(_Storage) (*_Atomic_address_as<const char>(_Storage))
> #define _ISO_VOLATILE_LOAD16(_Storage) (*_Atomic_address_as<const short>(_Storage))
>  
> #else // ^^^ x86/x64 / unsupported hardware vvv
> #error Unsupported hardware
> #endif // hardware
>  
>  
> …. Later…
>  
> // in _Atomic_storage<1>
>     _NODISCARD _Ty load() const noexcept { // load with sequential consistency
>         char _As_bytes = _ISO_VOLATILE_LOAD8(_Storage);
>         _Compiler_or_memory_barrier();
>         return reinterpret_cast<_Ty&>(_As_bytes);
>     }
>  
>     _NODISCARD _Ty load(const memory_order _Order) const noexcept { // load with given memory order
>         char _As_bytes = _ISO_VOLATILE_LOAD8(_Storage);
>         _Load_barrier(_Order);
>         return reinterpret_cast<_Ty&>(_As_bytes);
>     }
>  
> Billy3
>  
> From: JF Bastien <mailto:jfbastien at apple.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 8:43 PM
> To: Eli Friedman <mailto:efriedma at quicinc.com>
> Cc: rnk at google.com <mailto:rnk at google.com>; Billy O'Neal (VC LIBS) <mailto:bion at microsoft.com>; cfe-dev <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> Subject: Re: [cfe-dev] FYI, Intel folks might be looking to add the __iso_volatile_Xxx family for MSVC STL <atomic> soon
>  
>  
> 
> 
> On Jul 30, 2019, at 5:21 PM, Eli Friedman via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
>  
> From: cfe-dev <cfe-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org>> On Behalf Of Reid Kleckner via cfe-dev
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 4:54 PM
> To: Billy O'Neal (VC LIBS) <bion at microsoft.com <mailto:bion at microsoft.com>>
> Cc: cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org <mailto:cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>>
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [cfe-dev] FYI, Intel folks might be looking to add the __iso_volatile_Xxx family for MSVC STL <atomic> soon
>  
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 4:15 PM Billy O'Neal (VC LIBS) <bion at microsoft.com <mailto:bion at microsoft.com>> wrote:
> > we can worry about optimization, perhaps using _Atomic, later
>  
> We can’t use _Atomic because it would not be ABI compatible with our std::atomic; in particular, because we put the spinlock for non-lock-free atomics inside the atomic, for instance. And because that isn’t a thing for some of our supported frontends.
>  
> It is possible that there are different intrinsics we could call for Clang that would make you folks happier, but we don’t know what those are or even if they exist at present.
>  
> I was thinking that perhaps the _Atomic_address_as template would do the necessary casts to use it when necessary without changing the storage type inside the std::atomic object.
>  
> There are actually multiple APIs to access C++11 atomics in clang, since we invented APIs in parallel with gcc.  The __atomic_* builtins (https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html <https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgcc.gnu.org%2Fonlinedocs%2Fgcc%2F_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html&data=02%7C01%7Cbion%40microsoft.com%7C320671f55ce84bdf39b608d715694efa%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637001414353321850&sdata=CZx0Rk17szgX9vvi%2BPqV3%2Fu7aTr8IBjUKvhYKFVZlVM%3D&reserved=0>) don’t require the use of _Atomic types.
>  
> Using volatile loads and stores with barriers probably prevents the compiler from performing any breaking optimizations, assuming the RMW atomics are protected appropriately, and the user doesn’t call any of the clang atomic builtins directly.  But it’s not a good idea; it won’t optimize well.  For example, on AArch64, it will prevent the compiler from using the dedicated load-acquire and store-release instructions.
>  
> TL;DR: what are these _iso_ things? I read the bug report, I don’t see the details I’d expect.
> I think the __atomic_* builtins should work as Eli suggests.
>  
> 
> 
> -Eli
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