A feature of FEX's JIT is that when an unaligned atomic load/store
operation occurs, the instructions will be backpatched in to a barrier
plus a non-atomic memory instruction. This is the half-barrier technique
that still ensures correct visibility of loadstores in an unaligned
context.
The problem with this approach is that the dmb instructions are HEAVY,
because they effectively stop the world until all memory operations in
flight are visible. But it is a necessary evil since unaligned atomics
aren't a thing on ARM processors. FEAT_LSE only gives you unaligned
atomics inside of a 16-byte granularity, which doesn't match x86
behaviour of cacheline size (effectively always 64B).
This adds a new TSO option to disable the half-barrier on unaligned
atomic and instead only convert it to a regular loadstore instruction,
ommiting the half-barrier. This gives more insight in to how well a
CPU's LRCPC implementation is by not stalling on DMB instructions when
possible.
Originally implemented as a test to see if this makes Sonic Adventure 2
run full speed with TSO enabled (but all available TSO options disabled)
on NVIDIA Orin. Unfortunately this basically makes the code no longer
stall on dmb instructions and instead just showing how bad the LRCPC
implementation is, since the stalls show up on `ldapur` instructions
instead.
Tested Sonic Adventure 2 on X13s and it ran at 60FPS there without the
hack anyway.
This environment variable had an incorrect priority on the configuration
system. The expectation was higher priority than most other layers.
Now the only layer that has higher priority is the environment
variables.
This is used for instcountci to ensure instruction counts don't change
when a compiler supports this feature or not. Always runtime disable
when running in instcountci.
CMake option from #3394 can still be useful so leaving that in place.
We only used this so that our Xavier CI system which were running old
kernels could run unit tests. We have now removed the Xaviers from CI
and this is no longer necessary.
Stop pretending that we support kernels older than 5.0 and allowing this
fallback.
The 32-bit allocator is still used for the MAP_32BIT mmap flag, so the
load bearing code can't be fully removed. Just remove the config and the
frontend things using it.
This is an option that has been long overdue for removal. It's original
intention was primarily to lie to the guest application about the number
of cores in the system. This allowed us to say that the system was only
single threaded which worked around some threading bugs that we had
early on.
This is no longer the case and now it is a confusing remnant of the past
that people think they need to set. Incorrectly assuming that "0" by
default means that FEX is doing some sort of disabling of threading and
forcing all emulation down one CPU core. This is not the case and has
never been the case, so removing the option makes that idea go away.
This allows us to use reciprocal instructions which matches precision of
what x86 expects rather than converting everything to float divides.
Currently no hardware supports this, and even the upcoming X4/A720/A520
won't support it, but it was trivial to implement so wire it up.
Enables in InstCountCI so Pi users can run InstCountCI can run the tests
without breaking on crypto operations.
When crypto is enabled or disabled just wholesale change AES, CRC32, and
PMULL 128-bit in one step. We don't really care about partial support
here.
This would have caused core to try and initialize a custom core on
Arm64, which causes a std::function assert because it doesn't support
that.
Users would likely get hit by this immediately since we deleted the
interpreter and shifted all the core numbers.
It is scarcely used today, and like the x86 jit, it is a significant
maintainence burden complicating work on FEXCore and arm64 optimization. Remove
it, bringing us down to 2 backends.
1 down, 1 to go.
Some interpreter scaffolding remains for x87 fallbacks. That is not a problem
here.
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>
Now that PF calculation is deferred, the cost of calculating PF correctly should
be tolerable. Remove the speed hack to skip PF. It's fundamentally broken, and
there are enough broken things in FEX as it is that we don't need to maintain
this one ;-)
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>
It is not an external component, and it makes paths needlessly long.
Ryan seemed amenable to this when we discussed on IRC earlier.
Signed-off-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@rosenzweig.io>
Ryan Houdek