RFR(M): 8154736: enhancement of cmpxchg and copy_to_survivor for ppc64 (original) (raw)

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Tue Apr 24 18:42:15 UTC 2018

Hi Gustavo!

On 04/24/2018 05:54 PM, Gustavo Romero wrote:

Quick question: Does this pose any assumptions on the instruction set baseline on ppc64? I haven't build-tested this yet, but I want to avoid it doesn't break on POWER5, for example, which is used in Debian's big-endian ppc64 port. Yes, it does. But POWER5 and above are ok. Lightweight sync (lwsync) was introduced with Power ISA v2.03 which, by its turn, maps to POWER5.

We are primarily interested in PPC970 and compatible which - according to Wikipedia - is compliant with POWER ISA 2.03:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerArchitecture#PowerISAv.2.03

It's sometimes a bit confusing to differentiate all the different POWER ISAs because there are so many. That's why I usually ask in such cases.

Thanks for taking care of Power + Debian :-)

You're welcome. Debian has both a big-endian (POWER5/970) and little-endian (POWER8) ppc64 port as well as powerpc (32-bit) and powerpcspe (e500v2) ports, so PowerPC is quite popular within Debian ;).

Thanks, Adrian

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