urcu/uatomic/riscv: Mark RISC-V as broken
authorOlivier Dion <odion@efficios.com>
Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:53:46 +0000 (12:53 -0400)
committerMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:24:29 +0000 (11:24 -0400)
commitdf5fc97ba8e3f938020eefc67d30242ea7efcb88
tree67539e26651ee0179e3e6f1edc833ecde2e712da
parente9b7cb520e0dd1f3591697bb62b6683f01ad6ca5
urcu/uatomic/riscv: Mark RISC-V as broken

Implementations of some atomic operations of GCC for RISC-V are
insufficient for sequential consistency. For this reason Userspace RCU
is currently marked as `broken' for RISC-V with GCC. However, it is
still possible to use other toolchains.

See https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104831 for details.

For now, we mark every version of GCC as unsupported. Distribution
package maintainers will have to cherry-pick the relevant patches in GCC
then remove the #error in Userspace RCU if they want to support it.

As for us, we will incrementally add specific versions of GCC that have
fixed the issue whenever new stable releases are made from the GCC
project.

Change-Id: I2cd7c8f12068628b845a096e03f5f8100eacbe43
Signed-off-by: Olivier Dion <odion@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
include/urcu/uatomic/riscv.h
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