target-arm: emulate LL/SC using cmpxchg helpers

target-arm: emulate LL/SC using cmpxchg helpers

Emulating LL/SC with cmpxchg is not correct, since it can
suffer from the ABA problem. Portable parallel code, however,
is written assuming only cmpxchg--and not LL/SC--is available.
This means that in practice emulating LL/SC with cmpxchg is
a viable alternative.

The appended emulates LL/SC pairs in ARM with cmpxchg helpers.
This works in both user and system mode. In usermode, it avoids
pausing all other CPUs to perform the LL/SC pair. The subsequent
performance and scalability improvement is significant, as the
plots below show. They plot the throughput of atomic_add-bench
compiled for ARM and executed on a 64-core x86 machine.

Hi-res plots: http://imgur.com/a/aNQpB

               atomic_add-bench: 1000000 ops/thread, [0,1] range

  9 ++---------+----------+----------+----------+----------+----------+---++
    +cmpxchg +-E--+       +          +          +          +          +    |
  8 +Emaster +-H--+                                                       ++
    | |                                                                    |
  7 ++E                                                                   ++
    | |                                                                    |
  6 ++++                                                                  ++
    |  |                                                                   |
  5 ++ |                                                                  ++
  4 ++ |                                                                  ++
    |  |                                                                   |
  3 ++ |                                                                  ++
    |   |                                                                  |
  2 ++  |                                                                 ++
    |H++E+---                                  +++  ---+E+------+E+------+E|
  1 +++     +E+-----+E+------+E+------+E+------+E+--   +++      +++       ++
    ++H+       +    +++   +  +++     ++++       +          +          +    |
  0 ++--H----H-+-----H----+----------+----------+----------+----------+---++
    0          10         20         30         40         50         60
                               Number of threads

                atomic_add-bench: 1000000 ops/thread, [0,2] range

  16 ++---------+----------+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++
     +cmpxchg +-E--+       +         +          +          +          +    |
  14 ++master +-H--+                                                      ++
     | |                                                                   |
  12 ++|                                                                  ++
     | E                                                                   |
  10 ++|                                                                  ++
     | |                                                                   |
   8 ++++                                                                 ++
     |E+|                                                                  |
     |  |                                                                  |
   6 ++ |                                                                 ++
     |   |                                                                 |
   4 ++  |                                                                ++
     |  +E+---       +++      +++              +++           ---+E+------+E|
   2 +H+     +E+------E-------+E+-----+E+------+E+------+E+--            +++
     + |        +    +++   +         ++++       +          +          +    |
   0 ++H-H----H-+-----H----+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++
     0          10         20        30         40         50         60
                                Number of threads

               atomic_add-bench: 1000000 ops/thread, [0,128] range

  70 ++---------+----------+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++
     +cmpxchg +-E--+       +         +          +       ++++          +    |
  60 ++master +-H--+                                 ----E------+E+-------++
     |                                        -+E+---   +++     +++      +E|
     |                                +++ ---- +++                       ++|
  50 ++                       +++  ---+E+-                                ++
     |                        -E---                                        |
  40 ++                    ---+++                                         ++
     |               +++---                                                |
     |              -+E+                                                   |
  30 ++      +++----                                                      ++
     |       +E+                                                           |
  20 ++ +++--                                                             ++
     |  +E+                                                                |
     |+E+                                                                  |
  10 +E+                                                                  ++
     +          +          +         +          +          +          +    |
   0 +HH-H----H-+-----H----+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++
     0          10         20        30         40         50         60
                                Number of threads

              atomic_add-bench: 1000000 ops/thread, [0,1024] range

  120 ++---------+---------+----------+---------+----------+----------+---++
      +cmpxchg +-E--+      +          +         +          +          +    |
      | master +-H--+                                                    ++|
  100 ++                                                              ----E+
      |                                                 +++  ---+E+---   ++|
      |                                                --E---   +++        |
   80 ++                                           ---- +++               ++
      |                                     ---+E+-                        |
   60 ++                              -+E+--                              ++
      |                       +++ ---- +++                                 |
      |                      -+E+-                                         |
   40 ++              +++----                                             ++
      |      +++   ---+E+                                                  |
      |     -+E+---                                                        |
   20 ++ +E+                                                              ++
      |+E+++                                                               |
      +E+        +         +          +         +          +          +    |
    0 +HH-H---H--+-----H---+----------+---------+----------+----------+---++
      0          10        20         30        40         50         60
                                Number of threads

[rth: Enforce alignment for ldrexd.]

Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
Message-Id: <1467054136-10430-23-git-send-email-cota@braap.org>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>