RFR: 8316961: Fallback implementations for 64-bit Atomic::{add,xchg} on 32-bit platforms

[David Holmes]

On Wed, 18 Oct 2023 18:58:58 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:

> See the bug for rationale. Looks like there is enough infrastructure to achieve what we want without significant fan-out. I checked all `atomic_*.hpp` headers for unimplemented `PlatformAdd<8>` and `PlatformXchg<8>`, and only these seem to be affected.
> 
> Unfortunately, we cannot test these apart from the existing gtest.
> 
> Additional testing:
>  - [x] linux-x86-server-fastdebug, atomic tests pass
>  - [x] linux-arm-server-fastdebug, atomic tests pass (with #16269 applied)

I'm afraid I've lost track of the history here. We had supports_cx8 to deal with exactly this problem. If a platform could not support 64-bit cmpxchg (and thus implicitly any 64-bit r-m-w operation) then it has to fall back to locking.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16252#issuecomment-1772140277