Usually we can assume no accesses to write-combining memory occur, and also that there are no non-temporal load/stores (people would presumably write those with assembly or intrinsics and put appropriate lfence/sfence manually). In this case rmb and wmb are no-ops on x86. Define cmm_smp_rmb and cmm_smp_wmb to be the "common" operations, while leaving cmm_rmb and cmm_wmb in place for more sophisticated uses.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]> --- urcu/arch/x86.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/urcu/arch/x86.h b/urcu/arch/x86.h index 9e5411f..c1e2e07 100644 --- a/urcu/arch/x86.h +++ b/urcu/arch/x86.h @@ -33,12 +33,27 @@ extern "C" { #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_HAVE_FENCE #define cmm_mb() asm volatile("mfence":::"memory") -#define cmm_rmb() asm volatile("lfence":::"memory") -#define cmm_wmb() asm volatile("sfence"::: "memory") + +/* + * Define cmm_rmb/cmm_wmb to "strict" barriers that may be needed when + * using SSE or working with I/O areas. cmm_smp_rmb/cmm_smp_wmb are + * only compiler barriers, which is enough for general use. + */ +#define cmm_rmb() asm volatile("lfence":::"memory") +#define cmm_wmb() asm volatile("sfence"::: "memory") +#define cmm_smp_rmb() cmm_barrier() +#define cmm_smp_wmb() cmm_barrier() #else /* - * Some non-Intel clones support out of order store. cmm_wmb() ceases to be a - * nop for these. + * We leave smp_rmb/smp_wmb as full barriers for processors that do not have + * fence instructions. + * + * An empty cmm_smp_rmb() may not be enough on old PentiumPro multiprocessor + * systems, due to an erratum. The Linux kernel says that "Even distro + * kernels should think twice before enabling this", but for now let's + * be conservative and leave the full barrier on 32-bit processors. Also, + * IDT WinChip supports weak store ordering, and the kernel may enable it + * under our feet; cmm_smp_wmb() ceases to be a nop for these processors. */ #define cmm_mb() asm volatile("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)":::"memory") #define cmm_rmb() asm volatile("lock; addl $0,0(%%esp)":::"memory") -- 1.7.6 _______________________________________________ ltt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.casi.polymtl.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ltt-dev
