ARM counterpart to r248291:
In the comparison failure block of a cmpxchg expansion, the initial
ldrex/ldxr will not be followed by a matching strex/stxr.
On ARM/AArch64, this unnecessarily ties up the execution monitor,
which might have a negative performance impact on some uarchs.
Instead, release the monitor in the failure block.
The clrex instruction was designed for this: use it.
Also see ARMARM v8-A B2.10.2:
"Exclusive access instructions and Shareable memory locations".
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13033
llvm-svn: 248294
AtomicExpandLoadLinked is currently rather ARM-specific. This patch is the first of
a group that aim at making it more target-independent. See
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-August/075873.html
for details
The command line option is "atomic-expand"
llvm-svn: 216231
Ahmed Bougacha