[PATCH] D72184: [BPF] support atomic instructions

Alexei Starovoitov via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Wed Nov 18 14:54:01 PST 2020


ast added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/lib/Target/BPF/BPFInstrInfo.td:783
+  let Inst{47-32} = addr{15-0}; // offset
+  let Inst{11-8} = new;
+  let Inst{7-4} = BPF_CMPXCHG.Value;
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yonghong-song wrote:
> jackmanb wrote:
> > If we go down the route of matching operands with x86 as you have done for `XFALU64` and `XCHG`, I think  we should also do it for cmpxchg.
> > 
> > IIUC this is `dst = atomic_cmpxchg(*(src + off), r0, new);` 
> > 
> > But to do it in a single x86 instruction we need to have only 2 operands + the hard-coded r0. `r0 = atomic_xmpxchg(*(dst + off), r0, src);` would seem most natural to me.
> We can do this:
>   r0 = atomic_xmpxchg(*(dst + off), r0, src);
I'm confused. Isn't that what that is already?
r0 = atomic_cmpxchg(*(dst + off), r0, src);

In "class CMPXCHG":
let Inst{51-48} = addr{19-16}; // this is 'dst_reg' in bpf_insn.
let Inst{55-52} = new; // this is 'src_reg' in bpf_insn.

Same as old xadd and new fetch_add insns.
What am I missing?


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