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      1 //===- AtomicExpandUtils.h - Utilities for expanding atomic instructions --===//
      2 //
      3 //                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
      4 //
      5 // This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
      6 // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
      7 //
      8 //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
      9 
     10 #ifndef LLVM_CODEGEN_ATOMICEXPANDUTILS_H
     11 #define LLVM_CODEGEN_ATOMICEXPANDUTILS_H
     12 
     13 #include "llvm/ADT/STLExtras.h"
     14 #include "llvm/IR/IRBuilder.h"
     15 #include "llvm/Support/AtomicOrdering.h"
     16 
     17 namespace llvm {
     18 
     19 class AtomicRMWInst;
     20 class Value;
     21 
     22 /// Parameters (see the expansion example below):
     23 /// (the builder, %addr, %loaded, %new_val, ordering,
     24 ///  /* OUT */ %success, /* OUT */ %new_loaded)
     25 using CreateCmpXchgInstFun =
     26     function_ref<void(IRBuilder<> &, Value *, Value *, Value *, AtomicOrdering,
     27                       Value *&, Value *&)>;
     28 
     29 /// \brief Expand an atomic RMW instruction into a loop utilizing
     30 /// cmpxchg. You'll want to make sure your target machine likes cmpxchg
     31 /// instructions in the first place and that there isn't another, better,
     32 /// transformation available (for example AArch32/AArch64 have linked loads).
     33 ///
     34 /// This is useful in passes which can't rewrite the more exotic RMW
     35 /// instructions directly into a platform specific intrinsics (because, say,
     36 /// those intrinsics don't exist). If such a pass is able to expand cmpxchg
     37 /// instructions directly however, then, with this function, it could avoid two
     38 /// extra module passes (avoiding passes by `-atomic-expand` and itself). A
     39 /// specific example would be PNaCl's `RewriteAtomics` pass.
     40 ///
     41 /// Given: atomicrmw some_op iN* %addr, iN %incr ordering
     42 ///
     43 /// The standard expansion we produce is:
     44 ///     [...]
     45 ///     %init_loaded = load atomic iN* %addr
     46 ///     br label %loop
     47 /// loop:
     48 ///     %loaded = phi iN [ %init_loaded, %entry ], [ %new_loaded, %loop ]
     49 ///     %new = some_op iN %loaded, %incr
     50 /// ; This is what -atomic-expand will produce using this function on i686
     51 /// targets:
     52 ///     %pair = cmpxchg iN* %addr, iN %loaded, iN %new_val
     53 ///     %new_loaded = extractvalue { iN, i1 } %pair, 0
     54 ///     %success = extractvalue { iN, i1 } %pair, 1
     55 /// ; End callback produced IR
     56 ///     br i1 %success, label %atomicrmw.end, label %loop
     57 /// atomicrmw.end:
     58 ///     [...]
     59 ///
     60 /// Returns true if the containing function was modified.
     61 bool expandAtomicRMWToCmpXchg(AtomicRMWInst *AI, CreateCmpXchgInstFun Factory);
     62 
     63 } // end namespace llvm
     64 
     65 #endif // LLVM_CODEGEN_ATOMICEXPANDUTILS_H
     66