Re: [PATCH] correct the operand specifiers in the riscv64 CAS routines

[Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

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On 9/24/19 8:30 PM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> The operand sepcifiers in a_cas and a_casp for riscv64 were incorrect:
> there's a backwards branch in the routine, so despite tmp being written
> at the end of the assembly fragment it cannot be allocated in one of the
> input registers because the input values may be needed for another trip
> around the loop.
>
> For code that follows the guarnteed forward progress requirements, he
> backwards branch is rarely taken: SiFive's hardware only fails a store
> conditional on execptional cases (ie, instruction cache misses inside
> the loop), and until recently a bug in QEMU allowed back-to-back
> store conditionals to succeed.  The bug has been fixed in the latest
> QEMU release, but it turns out that the fix caused this latent bug in
> musl to manifest.
>
> Full disclosure: I haven't actually even compiled musl.  I just guessed
> this would fix a bug introducted by the new QEMU behavior, Alistair
> (CC'd) actually checked it fixes the problem.  The rest is just
> conjecture.

thanks Palmer, I tested this fix with OpenEmbedded and it indeed fixes
the problem I have tested mimimal image built with with both gcc and
clang on qemu 4.1 Tested-By: Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>

> ---
>  arch/riscv64/atomic_arch.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv64/atomic_arch.h b/arch/riscv64/atomic_arch.h
> index c976534284aa..41ad4d04907c 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv64/atomic_arch.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv64/atomic_arch.h
> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ static inline int a_cas(volatile int *p, int t, int s)
>  		"	sc.w.aqrl %1, %4, (%2)\n"
>  		"	bnez %1, 1b\n"
>  		"1:"
> -		: "=&r"(old), "=r"(tmp)
> +		: "=&r"(old), "=&r"(tmp)
>  		: "r"(p), "r"(t), "r"(s)
>  		: "memory");
>  	return old;
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ static inline void *a_cas_p(volatile void *p, void *t, void *s)
>  		"	sc.d.aqrl %1, %4, (%2)\n"
>  		"	bnez %1, 1b\n"
>  		"1:"
> -		: "=&r"(old), "=r"(tmp)
> +		: "=&r"(old), "=&r"(tmp)
>  		: "r"(p), "r"(t), "r"(s)
>  		: "memory");
>  	return old;

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