Without this patch, clang would generate calls to __sync_* routines on
targets where it does not make sense; we can't assume the routines exist
on unknown targets. Linux has special implementations of the routines
that work on old ARM targets; other targets have no such routines. In
general, atomics operations which aren't natively supported should go
through libatomic (__atomic_*) APIs, which can support arbitrary atomics
through locks.
ARM targets older than v6, where this patch makes a difference, are rare
in practice, but not completely extinct. See, for example, discussion on
D116088.
This also affects Cortex-M0, but I don't think __sync_* routines
actually exist in any Cortex-M0 libraries. So in practice this just
leads to a slightly different linker error for those cases, I think.
Mechanically, this patch does the following:
- Ensures we run atomic expansion unconditionally; it never makes sense to
completely skip it.
- Fixes getMaxAtomicSizeInBitsSupported() so it returns an appropriate
number on all ARM subtargets.
- Fixes shouldExpandAtomicRMWInIR() and shouldExpandAtomicCmpXchgInIR() to
correctly handle subtargets that don't have atomic instructions.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120026
Based on the same for AArch64: 4751cadcca45984d7671e594ce95aed8fe030bf1
At -O0, the fast register allocator may insert spills between the ldrex and
strex instructions inserted by AtomicExpandPass when expanding atomicrmw
instructions in LL/SC loops. To avoid this, expand to cmpxchg loops and
therefore expand the cmpxchg pseudos after register allocation.
Required a tweak to ARMExpandPseudo::ExpandCMP_SWAP to use the 4-byte encoding
of UXT, since the pseudo instruction can be allocated a high register (R8-R15)
which the 2-byte encoding doesn't support. However, the 4-byte encodings
are not present for ARM v8-M Baseline. To enable this, two new pseudos are
added for Thumb which are only valid for v8mbase, tCMP_SWAP_8 and
tCMP_SWAP_16.
The previously committed attempt in D101164 had to be reverted due to runtime
failures in the test suites. Rather than spending time fixing that
implementation (adding another implementation of atomic operations and more
divergence between backends) I have chosen to follow the approach taken in
D101163.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101898
Depends on D101912
