docs/devel: clarify further the semantics of RMW operations
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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@ -469,13 +469,19 @@ and memory barriers, and the equivalents in QEMU:
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In QEMU, the second kind is named ``atomic_OP_fetch``.
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- different atomic read-modify-write operations in Linux imply
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a different set of memory barriers; in QEMU, all of them enforce
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sequential consistency.
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a different set of memory barriers. In QEMU, all of them enforce
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sequential consistency: there is a single order in which the
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program sees them happen.
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- in QEMU, ``qatomic_read()`` and ``qatomic_set()`` do not participate in
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the ordering enforced by read-modify-write operations.
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This is because QEMU uses the C11 memory model. The following example
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is correct in Linux but not in QEMU:
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- however, according to the C11 memory model that QEMU uses, this order
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does not propagate to other memory accesses on either side of the
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read-modify-write operation. As far as those are concerned, the
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operation consist of just a load-acquire followed by a store-release.
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Stores that precede the RMW operation, and loads that follow it, can
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still be reordered and will happen *in the middle* of the read-modify-write
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operation!
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Therefore, the following example is correct in Linux but not in QEMU:
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| Linux (correct) | QEMU (incorrect) |
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