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From: Sergey Fedorov <serge.fdrv@gmail.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Cc: "open list:All patches CC here" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 01/13] Introduce TCGOpcode for memory barrier
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 19:18:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57505C5A.7070609@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <016450d7-f6b9-ef14-9ef0-96d78eb1ac5c@twiddle.net>

On 02/06/16 00:35, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 06/01/2016 11:43 AM, Pranith Kumar wrote:
>> All we want to do here is map a barrier instruction from guest to a
>> barrier instruction on hist. This mapping is 1:1 if the host has
>> barrier instructions with matching semantics. Otherwise we generate a
>> multi-op instruction sequence. Some examples are: load acquire(ldar)
>> on ARM64 guest will map to dmb+load on ARMv7 target, store
>> fence(sfence) on x86 guest will map to dmb on ARMv7 target.
>
> Perhaps we should model this like the Sparc membar instruction, with
> individual bits for all combinations of Load x Store.  One can then
> describe exactly what the target semantics are for each barrier.

Seconded. Given that we don't support Alpha host we can ignore its
unique "Dependent loads reordered" feature. I suppose we're not going to
add Alpha host support :)

Kind regards,
Sergey

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-02 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-31 18:39 [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 00/13] tcg: Add fence gen support Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 01/13] Introduce TCGOpcode for memory barrier Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 20:24   ` Richard Henderson
2016-06-01 18:43     ` Pranith Kumar
2016-06-01 21:35       ` Richard Henderson
2016-06-02 16:18         ` Sergey Fedorov [this message]
2016-06-02 16:30   ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-02 18:42     ` Pranith Kumar
2016-06-02 20:36       ` Richard Henderson
2016-06-02 20:36     ` Richard Henderson
2016-06-02 20:38       ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-02 21:18         ` Richard Henderson
2016-06-02 21:37           ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-03  1:08             ` Richard Henderson
2016-06-03 15:16               ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-03 15:45                 ` Richard Henderson
2016-06-03 16:06                   ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-03 18:30               ` Pranith Kumar
2016-06-03 19:49                 ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-03 20:43                   ` Peter Maydell
2016-06-03 21:33                     ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-06 16:19                   ` Alex Bennée
2016-06-03 18:27           ` Pranith Kumar
2016-06-03 19:52             ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-06 15:44             ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-06 15:47               ` Pranith Kumar
2016-06-06 15:49                 ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-06 15:58                   ` Pranith Kumar
2016-06-06 16:14                     ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-06 17:11                       ` Pranith Kumar
2016-06-06 19:23                         ` Richard Henderson
2016-06-06 19:28                           ` Pranith Kumar
2016-06-06 20:30                             ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-06 21:00                               ` Peter Maydell
2016-06-06 21:49                                 ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 02/13] tcg/i386: Add support for fence Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 20:27   ` Richard Henderson
2016-06-01 18:49     ` Pranith Kumar
2016-06-01 21:17       ` Richard Henderson
2016-06-01 21:44         ` Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 03/13] tcg/aarch64: " Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 18:59   ` Claudio Fontana
2016-05-31 20:34   ` Richard Henderson
2016-06-16 22:03     ` Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 04/13] tcg/arm: " Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 05/13] tcg/ia64: " Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 06/13] tcg/mips: " Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 07/13] tcg/ppc: " Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 20:41   ` Richard Henderson
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 08/13] tcg/s390: " Pranith Kumar
2016-06-02 19:31   ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-02 20:38     ` Richard Henderson
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 09/13] tcg/sparc: " Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 20:45   ` Richard Henderson
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 10/13] tcg/tci: " Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 11/13] target-arm: Generate fences in ARMv7 frontend Pranith Kumar
2016-06-02 19:37   ` Sergey Fedorov
2016-06-04 14:50     ` Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 12/13] target-alpha: Generate fence op Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 18:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 13/13] tcg: Generate fences only for SMP MTTCG guests Pranith Kumar
2016-05-31 18:46 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 00/13] tcg: Add fence gen support Pranith Kumar

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