The lr.w instruction used to read the value from memory sign-extends
the value read from memory. GCC sign-extends the 32-bit comparison
value passed in whereas clang currently does not. As a result, if the
value being compared has the MSB set, the comparison fails for
matching 32-bit values when compiled with clang.
Use a cast to explicitly sign-extend the unsigned comparison value.
This works with both GCC and clang.
There is commentary in the RISC-V spec that suggests that GCC's
approach is more correct, but it is not clear if the commentary in the
RISC-V spec is binding.
Reviewed by: mhorne
Obtained from: Axiado
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: DARPA
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D22084
They provide relaxed-ordered atomic access semantic. Due to the
FreeBSD memory model, the operations are syntaxical wrappers around
the volatile accesses. The volatile qualifier is used to ensure that
the access not optimized out and in turn depends on the volatile
semantic as implemented by supported compilers.
The motivation for adding the operation is to help people coming from
other systems or knowing the C11/C++ standards where atomics have
special type and require use of the special access operations. It is
still the case that FreeBSD requires plain load and stores of aligned
integer types to be atomic.
Suggested by: jhb
Reviewed by: alc, jhb
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 1 week
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D13534
