Hi All,
This patch fixes an issue reported by one of our customers where an instruction
exception gets raised when using '__sync_fetch_and_add' on a PowerPC 440
processor. The instruction causing the exception is 'lwsync'. Luckily Joseph
laid the groundwork when solving a similar issue for e500 cores [1] by adding a
new macro ('TARGET_NO_LWSYNC') for controlling whether 'lwsync' is available .
This patch extends the 'TARGET_NO_LWSYNC' macro to include the PowerPC 440
and 603 processors. The 440 because that is what the problem was reported
against and the 603 because problems have been reported elsewhere [4] about
that. It doesn't seem like 'lwsync' is supported on 603 processors anyway. I
looked at the IBM [2] and Freescale [3] manuals and both use the heavyweight
implementation of 'sync' (i.e. the 'sync' bit L=0).
FWIW, I also took a look at the Linux kernel code and 'lwsync' is only used
on 64-bit PowerPC processors and e500 processors that can support it. This
can be seen in 'arch/powerpc/include/asm/synch.h':
#if defined(__powerpc64__)
# define LWSYNC lwsync
#elif defined(CONFIG_E500)
# define LWSYNC \
START_LWSYNC_SECTION(96); \
sync; \
MAKE_LWSYNC_SECTION_ENTRY(96, __lwsync_fixup);
#else
# define LWSYNC sync
#endif
Support for the e500 processors is determined at runtime and the kernel is
dynamically patched.
Regression tested with powerpc-none-eabi.
OK?
P.S. If it is OK can some please commit for me? I don't have write access.
[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-11/msg01238.html
[2]
https://www-01.ibm.com/chips/techlib/techlib.nsf/techdocs/852569B20050FF7785256996006F9795/$file/603e_um.pdf
[3] http://cache.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/ref_manual/MPC603EUM.pdf
[4] http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-06/msg00449.html
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Meador Inge
CodeSourcery / Mentor Embedded
http://www.mentor.com/embedded-software
2012-03-27 Meador Inge <mead...@codesourcery.com>
* config/rs6000/rs6000.h (TARGET_NO_LWSYNC): Extended to cover PPC
440 and 603 processors.
Index: gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.h
===================================================================
--- gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.h (revision 185881)
+++ gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.h (working copy)
@@ -501,8 +501,10 @@ extern int rs6000_vector_align[];
-/* E500 processors only support plain "sync", not lwsync. */
-#define TARGET_NO_LWSYNC TARGET_E500
+/* Some processors only support plain "sync", not lwsync. */
+#define TARGET_NO_LWSYNC (TARGET_E500 \
+ || rs6000_cpu == PROCESSOR_PPC440 \
+ || rs6000_cpu == PROCESSOR_PPC603)
/* Which machine supports the various reciprocal estimate instructions. */
#define TARGET_FRES (TARGET_HARD_FLOAT && TARGET_PPC_GFXOPT \
