// include/atomic.hh // This file is part of libpbe; see http://svn.chezphil.org/libpbe/ // (C) 2008 Philip Endecott // This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or // any later version. // // This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License // along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software // Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. #ifndef libpbe_atomic_hh #define libpbe_atomic_hh // This file provides some basic atomic operations using the gcc builtins. // It doesn't attempt to provide an N2427-compatiable interface. // Memory ordering sematics are those provided by the gcc builtins, // which basically means that they all provide full memory barriers (I think). // We have a special version for ARM: #ifdef __arm__ #include "atomic_arm.hh" #else // gcc provides __sync atomic primatives from version 4.1. However, // they didn't bother to add the feature-test-macros until version 4.2 or 4.3. // Ideally we would ignore the gcc versions that have the primitives // but don't tell us about them, but unfortunately that covers a few systems // that we might be interested in. So for the time being we'll fake it: #if __GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ == 1 // Maybe need to check for 4.2 too. // This assumes that all types <= 32 bits are atomic, which is a good // bet but not 100% certain. #define __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_1 #define __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_2 #define __GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_4 #endif #if defined(__GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_1) || defined(__GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_2) \ || defined(__GCC_HAVE_SYNC_COMPARE_AND_SWAP_4) #define PBE_HAVE_ATOMICS namespace pbe { // The N2427 proposed CAS is: // if ( *object == *expected ) // *object = desired; // else // *expected = *object; // The boolean result of the comparison is returned. // Note that *expected is updated if the comparison fails. This seems // odd to me; it isn't what the gcc builtin does. I'm going to provide // something closer to gcc. template // T must of course be a type that's atomic on the hardware in use. // I hope that some sort of error will occur if it isn't. bool atomic_compare_and_swap(volatile T& var, T expected, T newval) { // The return value indicates the result of the compare. return __sync_bool_compare_and_swap(&var, expected, newval); } template T atomic_post_dec(volatile T& var, T amt = 1) { return __sync_fetch_and_sub(&var, amt); } template T atomic_pre_inc(volatile T& var, T amt = 1) { return __sync_add_and_fetch(&var, amt); } template void atomic_inc(volatile T& var, T amt = 1) { __sync_fetch_and_add(&var, amt); } template void atomic_dec(volatile T& var, T amt = 1) { __sync_fetch_and_sub(&var, amt); } template T atomic_swap(volatile T& var, T newval) { return __sync_lock_test_and_set(&var,newval); // misnamed } template T atomic_read(volatile T& var) { return var; }; template void atomic_write(volatile T& var, T newval) { var = newval; }; }; #endif #endif #endif