On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 11:08 PM Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 6/21/22 10:49, guoren@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From: Guo Ren <guoren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Enable qspinlock and meet the requirements mentioned in a8ad07e5240c9
> > ("asm-generic: qspinlock: Indicate the use of mixed-size atomics").
> >
> > RISC-V LR/SC pairs could provide a strong/weak forward guarantee that
> > depends on micro-architecture. And RISC-V ISA spec has given out
> > several limitations to let hardware support strict forward guarantee
> > (RISC-V User ISA - 8.3 Eventual Success of Store-Conditional
> > Instructions):
> > We restricted the length of LR/SC loops to fit within 64 contiguous
> > instruction bytes in the base ISA to avoid undue restrictions on
> > instruction cache and TLB size and associativity. Similarly, we
>
> Does the 64 contiguous bytes need to be cacheline aligned?
No, they are instructions, and the IFU & issue units would guarantee
that. The programmer needn't worry about that.
>
> Regards,
> Longman
>
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Best Regards
Guo Ren
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