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authorTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-12-28 12:24:43 -0200
committerTulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-01-08 17:47:33 -0200
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powerpc: Enforce compiler barriers on hardware transactions
Work around a GCC behavior with hardware transactional memory built-ins. GCC doesn't treat the PowerPC transactional built-ins as compiler barriers, moving instructions past the transaction boundaries and altering their atomicity.
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+2016-01-08 Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/htm.h (__libc_tbegin,
+ __libc_tabort, __libc_tend): New wrappers that enforce compiler
+ barriers to their respective compiler built-ins.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/nptl/elide.h (__get_new_count, ELIDE_LOCK,
+ ELIDE_TRYLOCK, __elide_unlock): Use the new wrappers.
+ * sysdeps/powerpc/sysdep.h: Likewise.
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-lock.c: Likewise.
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-trylock.c: Likewise.
+ * sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/elision-unlock.c: Likewise.
+
2016-01-08 Marko Myllynen <myllynen@redhat.com>
* scripts/config.guess: Revert previous shebang change.