The terminal barrier of a cmpxchg expansion will be either Acquire or
SequentiallyConsistent. In either case it can be skipped if the
operation has Monotonic requirements on failure.
rdar://problem/15996804
llvm-svn: 205535
There's a barrier instruction so that should still be used, but most actual
atomic operations are going to need a platform decision on the correct
behaviour (either nop if single-threaded or OS-support otherwise).
rdar://problem/15287210
llvm-svn: 193399
ARM processors without ldrex/strex need to be able to make libcalls for all
atomic operations, including the newer min/max versions.
The alternative would probably be expanding these operations in terms of
cmpxchg (as x86 does always), but in the configurations where this matters
code-size tends to be paramount so the libcall is more desirable.
llvm-svn: 193398
Tim Northover