[RISCV] Add target feature to force-enable atomics
This adds a +forced-atomics target feature with the same semantics as +atomics-32 on ARM (D130480). For RISCV targets without the +a extension, this forces LLVM to assume that lock-free atomics (up to 32/64 bits for riscv32/64 respectively) are available. This means that atomic load/store are lowered to a simple load/store (and fence as necessary), as these are guaranteed to be atomic (as long as they're aligned). Atomic RMW/CAS are lowered to __sync (rather than __atomic) libcalls. Responsibility for providing the __sync libcalls lies with the user (for privileged single-core code they can be implemented by disabling interrupts). Code using +forced-atomics and -forced-atomics are not ABI compatible if atomic variables cross the ABI boundary. For context, the difference between __sync and __atomic is that the former are required to be lock-free, while the latter requires a shared global lock provided by a shared object library. See https://llvm.org/docs/Atomics.html#libcalls-atomic for a detailed discussion on the topic. This target feature will be used by Rust's riscv32i target family to support the use of atomic load/store without atomic RMW/CAS. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130621
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