LLVM places the release fence of a cmpxchg between the load-linked and the
store-conditional. On e500v2 that clears the reservation, so the
store-conditional always fails. The strong form retries and re-reserves; the
weak form has no retry and can never succeed.
fetch_update in core is a weak retry loop, so it spins forever and anything
using it hangs. A tokio reactor livelocks on its first I/O event, burning
CPU without issuing a syscall, which makes async Rust unusable on the
subtarget.
Carry the fix as a patch until it reaches a rustc release. It adds a
TargetLowering hook, defaulting to false, so only PowerPC changes.
Signed-off-by: Josef Schlehofer <pepe.schlehofer@gmail.com>
Josef Schlehofer
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