On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 07:34:28AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> In Section 15.4.3, you are treating ARMv8 as 64-bit CPU.
> However, ARMv8 has 32-bit modes A32 and T32.
> Instructions for load-acquire/store-release are also available in A32
> and T32 modes of ARMv8.
>
> The opening paragraph of Section 15.4.3 needs some rework, I guess.
Ah, thank you! How about the following?
Thanx, Paul
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commit 1a41fa1352ff77c3a09a4d182649e571735d7f1c
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Nov 1 15:51:06 2017 -0700
memorder: ARMv8 includes 32-bit capability
Reported-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/memorder/memorder.tex b/memorder/memorder.tex
index 94e125ab3412..446f4804af53 100644
--- a/memorder/memorder.tex
+++ b/memorder/memorder.tex
@@ -4485,10 +4485,11 @@ lines~3 and~4 would enforce ordering between lines~1 and~5.
\ContributedBy{Figure}{fig:memorder:Half Memory Barrier}{Melissa Brossard}
\end{figure}
-ARMv8 is ARM's 64-bit CPU~\cite{ARMv8A:2017},
-in contrast to their 32-bit CPU described in
+ARMv8 is ARM's new CPU family~\cite{ARMv8A:2017}
+which includes 64-bit capabilities,
+in contrast to their 32-bit-only CPU described in
Section~\ref{sec:memorder:ARMv7-A/R}.
-ARMv8's memory model closely resembles its 32-bit counterpart,
+ARMv8's memory model closely resembles its ARMv7 counterpart,
but adds load-acquire (\co{LDLARB}, \co{LDLARH}, and \co{LDLAR})
and store-release (\co{STLLRB}, \co{STLLRH}, and \co{STLLR})
instructions.
@@ -4569,7 +4570,7 @@ being weakly ordered by default, but respecting dependencies.
MIPS has a wide variety of memory-barrier instructions, but ties them
not to hardware considerations, but rather to the use cases provided
by the Linux kernel and the C++11 standard~\cite{RichardSmith2015N4527}
-in a manner similar to the ARM64 additions:
+in a manner similar to the ARMv8 additions:
\begin{description}[style=nextline]
\item[\tco{SYNC}]
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