Relaxed memory barriers for x86
X86 provides stronger memory guarantees and thus the memory barriers can be
optimized. This patch ensures that all memory barriers for x86 are treated
as scheduling barriers. And in cases where a barrier is needed (StoreLoad case),
an mfence is used.
Change-Id: I13d02bf3f152083ba9f358052aedb583b0d48640
Signed-off-by: Razvan A Lupusoru <razvan.a.lupusoru@intel.com>
diff --git a/compiler/dex/quick/x86/x86_lir.h b/compiler/dex/quick/x86/x86_lir.h
index abe1b3d..b72e60d 100644
--- a/compiler/dex/quick/x86/x86_lir.h
+++ b/compiler/dex/quick/x86/x86_lir.h
@@ -388,6 +388,7 @@
kX86CmpxchgRR, kX86CmpxchgMR, kX86CmpxchgAR, // compare and exchange
kX86LockCmpxchgMR, kX86LockCmpxchgAR, // locked compare and exchange
kX86LockCmpxchg8bM, kX86LockCmpxchg8bA, // locked compare and exchange
+ kX86XchgMR, // exchange memory with register (automatically locked)
Binary0fOpCode(kX86Movzx8), // zero-extend 8-bit value
Binary0fOpCode(kX86Movzx16), // zero-extend 16-bit value
Binary0fOpCode(kX86Movsx8), // sign-extend 8-bit value