[oe] mono build error with swp instruction
Philip Balister
philip at balister.org
Wed Jan 7 16:21:52 UTC 2009
Cliff Brake wrote:
> I ran into an interesting build error this morning that might be worth
> documenting ...
>
> When building mono with the latest toolchains built with OE, I get:
>
> /tmp/ccYsXwlg.s:3067: Error: selected processor does not support `swp
> r2,r0,[r4]'
> /tmp/ccYsXwlg.s:3161: Error: selected processor does not support `swp
> r2,r0,[r4]'
> /tmp/ccYsXwlg.s:3272: Error: selected processor does not support `swp
> r3,r4,[r5]'
>
> In the libgc code, there is the following:
>
> # ifdef ARM32
> inline static int GC_test_and_set(volatile unsigned int *addr) {
> int oldval;
> /* SWP on ARM is very similar to XCHG on x86. Doesn't lock the
> * bus because there are no SMP ARM machines. If/when there are,
> * this code will likely need to be updated. */
> /* See linuxthreads/sysdeps/arm/pt-machine.h in glibc-2.1 */
> __asm__ __volatile__("swp %0, %1, [%2]"
> : "=&r"(oldval)
> : "r"(1), "r"(addr)
> : "memory");
> return oldval;
> }
>
> The solution was to set ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm" in the mono recipe.
On armv6 and higher, you want to use LDREX and STREX instead of SWP.
This makes your code SMP ready (and a few other benefits I suspect) :)
Philip
>
> Thanks,
> Cliff
>
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