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From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
To: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: Carlos Eduardo de Paula <me@carlosedp.com>,
	"open list:RISC-V" <qemu-riscv@nongnu.org>,
	Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Joel Sing <joel@sing.id.au>,
	Alistair Francis <Alistair.Francis@wdc.com>,
	Marco Peereboom <marco@decred.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] atomic failures on qemu-system-riscv64
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 23:42:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANs6eM=ir68d9KEn1_uOGVAxFp61OT2bCCJNFa+JrWnHWeMJFA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41ef5fbf-f438-e60a-2fba-a72e3ad422f9@linaro.org>

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 4:53 PM Richard Henderson <
richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 6/16/19 12:19 PM, Joel Sing wrote:
> > +    /*
> > +     * Clear the load reservation, since an SC must fail if there is
> > +     * an SC to any address, in between an LR and SC pair.
> > +     */
> > +    tcg_gen_movi_tl(load_res, 0);
> > +
> >      gen_set_label(l2);
>
> This clear needs to be moved down below label l2.
> Otherwise, with lr / sc / sc, the second sc could succeed in error.
>
> FWIW, other targets have used -1 as the "invalid" load reservation, since
> the
> architecture does not require address 0 to be unmapped.  This should be
> quite
> visible in M-mode with paging disabled and ram at offset 0.  Often, other
> targets require alignment for the lr/sc address, though I don't see that
> for riscv.
>
>
> r~
>

Joel: can you submit this with a "Signed-off-by" line?  There's only a week
until the soft freeze, and I'd really like this in if possible.  It'd be
great if you could fix up the other issues, but I can't even do that myself
without a SOB.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-24  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-16 19:19 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] atomic failures on qemu-system-riscv64 Joel Sing
2019-06-16 20:54 ` no-reply
2019-06-17 23:52 ` Richard Henderson
2019-06-24  6:42   ` Palmer Dabbelt [this message]
2019-06-24 18:08   ` Joel Sing
2019-06-25 15:36     ` Richard Henderson
2019-06-26  6:07       ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-06-26  7:48         ` Richard Henderson
2019-06-26  8:25           ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-06-26  8:30             ` Richard Henderson
2019-06-26  8:31               ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-06-25 15:39     ` Richard Henderson
2019-06-26  6:07       ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-09-24 18:29     ` Alistair Francis
2019-09-24 20:04       ` Palmer Dabbelt
2019-09-24 23:35         ` Alistair Francis
2019-09-25  1:01           ` Alistair Francis

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