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authorRoland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>2006-04-04 08:18:56 +0000
committerRoland McGrath <roland@gnu.org>2006-04-04 08:18:56 +0000
commitf9d35bb91eea55bddcb604ec369ddab847d7ed5a (patch)
treec78bac52709cbf238f88bb35a54ed40ec1081ee0 /nptl
parent729f7b28c598e1623c5bba3495e1447342ffc82d (diff)
[BZ #2505]
2006-04-03 Steven Munroe <sjmunroe@us.ibm.com> [BZ #2505] * sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/bits/atomic.h [_ARCH_PWR4]: Define atomic_read_barrier and __ARCH_REL_INSTR using lwsync.
Diffstat (limited to 'nptl')
-rw-r--r--nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/lowlevellock.h16
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/lowlevellock.h b/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/lowlevellock.h
index fcc1240fef..abd019df47 100644
--- a/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/lowlevellock.h
+++ b/nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/lowlevellock.h
@@ -110,7 +110,21 @@
# define __lll_rel_instr ""
#else
# define __lll_acq_instr "isync"
-# define __lll_rel_instr "sync"
+# ifdef _ARCH_PWR4
+/*
+ * Newer powerpc64 processors support the new "light weight" sync (lwsync)
+ * So if the build is using -mcpu=[power4,power5,power5+,970] we can
+ * safely use lwsync.
+ */
+# define __lll_rel_instr "lwsync"
+# else
+/*
+ * Older powerpc32 processors don't support the new "light weight"
+ * sync (lwsync). So the only safe option is to use normal sync
+ * for all powerpc32 applications.
+ */
+# define __lll_rel_instr "sync"
+# endif
#endif
/* Set *futex to ID if it is 0, atomically. Returns the old value */