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package com.oracle.max.cri.intrinsics;

import static com.oracle.max.cri.intrinsics.IntrinsicIDs.*;

import com.sun.max.annotate.*;

/**
 * Constants and intrinsic definition for memory barriers.
 *
 * The documentation for each constant is taken from Doug Lea's
 * <a href="http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/jmm/cookbook.html">The JSR-133 Cookbook for Compiler Writers</a>.
 * <p>
 * The {@code JMM_*} constants capture the memory barriers necessary to implement the Java Memory Model
 * with respect to volatile field accesses. Their values are explained by this
 * comment from templateTable_i486.cpp in the HotSpot source code:
 * <pre>
 * Volatile variables demand their effects be made known to all CPU's in
 * order.  Store buffers on most chips allow reads & writes to reorder; the
 * JMM's ReadAfterWrite.java test fails in -Xint mode without some kind of
 * memory barrier (i.e., it's not sufficient that the interpreter does not
 * reorder volatile references, the hardware also must not reorder them).
 *
 * According to the new Java Memory Model (JMM):
 * (1) All volatiles are serialized wrt to each other.
 * ALSO reads & writes act as acquire & release, so:
 * (2) A read cannot let unrelated NON-volatile memory refs that happen after
 * the read float up to before the read.  It's OK for non-volatile memory refs
 * that happen before the volatile read to float down below it.
 * (3) Similarly, a volatile write cannot let unrelated NON-volatile memory refs
 * that happen BEFORE the write float down to after the write.  It's OK for
 * non-volatile memory refs that happen after the volatile write to float up
 * before it.
 *
 * We only put in barriers around volatile refs (they are expensive), not
 * _between_ memory refs (which would require us to track the flavor of the
 * previous memory refs).  Requirements (2) and (3) require some barriers
 * before volatile stores and after volatile loads.  These nearly cover
 * requirement (1) but miss the volatile-store-volatile-load case.  This final
 * case is placed after volatile-stores although it could just as well go
 * before volatile-loads.
 * </pre>
 */
public class MemoryBarriers {

    /**
     * The sequence {@code Load1; LoadLoad; Load2} ensures that {@code Load1}'s data are loaded before data accessed
     * by {@code Load2} and all subsequent load instructions are loaded. In general, explicit {@code LoadLoad}
     * barriers are needed on processors that perform speculative loads and/or out-of-order processing in which
     * waiting load instructions can bypass waiting stores. On processors that guarantee to always preserve load
     * ordering, these barriers amount to no-ops.
     */
    public static final int LOAD_LOAD   = 0x0001;

    /**
     * The sequence {@code Load1; LoadStore; Store2} ensures that {@code Load1}'s data are loaded before all data
     * associated with {@code Store2} and subsequent store instructions are flushed. {@code LoadStore} barriers are
     * needed only on those out-of-order processors in which waiting store instructions can bypass loads.
     */
    public static final int LOAD_STORE  = 0x0002;

    /**
     * The sequence {@code Store1; StoreLoad; Load2} ensures that {@code Store1}'s data are made visible to other
     * processors (i.e., flushed to main memory) before data accessed by {@code Load2} and all subsequent load
     * instructions are loaded. {@code StoreLoad} barriers protect against a subsequent load incorrectly using
     * {@code Store1}'s data value rather than that from a more recent store to the same location performed by a
     * different processor. Because of this, on the processors discussed below, a {@code StoreLoad} is strictly
     * necessary only for separating stores from subsequent loads of the same location(s) as were stored before the
     * barrier. {@code StoreLoad} barriers are needed on nearly all recent multiprocessors, and are usually the most
     * expensive kind. Part of the reason they are expensive is that they must disable mechanisms that ordinarily
     * bypass cache to satisfy loads from write-buffers. This might be implemented by letting the buffer fully
     * flush, among other possible stalls.
     */
    public static final int STORE_LOAD  = 0x0004;

    /**
     * The sequence {@code Store1; StoreStore; Store2} ensures that {@code Store1}'s data are visible to other
     * processors (i.e., flushed to memory) before the data associated with {@code Store2} and all subsequent store
     * instructions. In general, {@code StoreStore} barriers are needed on processors that do not otherwise
     * guarantee strict ordering of flushes from write buffers and/or caches to other processors or main memory.
     */
    public static final int STORE_STORE = 0x0008;

    public static final int JMM_PRE_VOLATILE_WRITE = LOAD_STORE | STORE_STORE;
    public static final int JMM_POST_VOLATILE_WRITE = STORE_LOAD | STORE_STORE;
    public static final int JMM_PRE_VOLATILE_READ = 0;
    public static final int JMM_POST_VOLATILE_READ = LOAD_LOAD | LOAD_STORE;


    /**
     * @see IntrinsicIDs#MEMBAR
     */
    @INTRINSIC(MEMBAR)
    public static native void barrier(@INTRINSIC.Constant int barrierSpec);


    public static String barriersString(int barriers) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append((barriers & LOAD_LOAD) != 0 ? "LOAD_LOAD " : "");
        sb.append((barriers & LOAD_STORE) != 0 ? "LOAD_STORE " : "");
        sb.append((barriers & STORE_LOAD) != 0 ? "STORE_LOAD " : "");
        sb.append((barriers & STORE_STORE) != 0 ? "STORE_STORE " : "");
        return sb.toString().trim();
    }
}