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From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] target/ppc: Fix eieio memory ordering semantics
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 23:59:05 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220519135908.21282-2-npiggin@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220519135908.21282-1-npiggin@gmail.com>

The generated eieio memory ordering semantics do not match the
instruction definition in the architecture. Add a big comment to
explain this strange instruction and correct the memory ordering
behaviour.

Signed-off: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
---
 target/ppc/translate.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/target/ppc/translate.c b/target/ppc/translate.c
index fa34f81c30..eb42f7e459 100644
--- a/target/ppc/translate.c
+++ b/target/ppc/translate.c
@@ -3513,7 +3513,32 @@ static void gen_stswx(DisasContext *ctx)
 /* eieio */
 static void gen_eieio(DisasContext *ctx)
 {
-    TCGBar bar = TCG_MO_LD_ST;
+    TCGBar bar = TCG_MO_ALL;
+
+    /*
+     * eieio has complex semanitcs. It provides memory ordering between
+     * operations in the set:
+     * - loads from CI memory.
+     * - stores to CI memory.
+     * - stores to WT memory.
+     *
+     * It separately also orders memory for operations in the set:
+     * - stores to cacheble memory.
+     *
+     * It also serializes instructions:
+     * - dcbt and dcbst.
+     *
+     * It separately serializes:
+     * - tlbie and tlbsync.
+     *
+     * And separately serializes:
+     * - slbieg, slbiag, and slbsync.
+     *
+     * The end result is that CI memory ordering requires TCG_MO_ALL
+     * and it is not possible to special-case more relaxed ordering for
+     * cacheable accesses. TCG_BAR_SC is required to provide this
+     * serialization.
+     */
 
     /*
      * POWER9 has a eieio instruction variant using bit 6 as a hint to
-- 
2.35.1



  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-19 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-19 13:59 [PATCH 0/4] ppc: improve some memory ordering issues Nicholas Piggin
2022-05-19 13:59 ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2022-05-19 15:30   ` [PATCH 1/4] target/ppc: Fix eieio memory ordering semantics Richard Henderson
2022-05-19 13:59 ` [PATCH 2/4] tcg/ppc: ST_ST memory ordering is not provided with eieio Nicholas Piggin
2022-05-19 13:59 ` [PATCH 3/4] tcg/ppc: Optimize memory ordering generation with lwsync Nicholas Piggin
2022-05-19 15:30   ` Richard Henderson
2022-05-19 13:59 ` [PATCH 4/4] target/ppc: Implement lwsync with weaker memory ordering Nicholas Piggin
2022-05-19 15:34   ` Richard Henderson
2022-05-23 19:24 ` [PATCH 0/4] ppc: improve some memory ordering issues Daniel Henrique Barboza

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