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From ca11b53896365c948426974cb90e8f71c70d123b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon South <simon@simonsouth.net>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 20:36:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Guard floating-point opcodes with explicit memory barrier

---
 src/interp/engine/interp-inlining.h | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/interp/engine/interp-inlining.h b/src/interp/engine/interp-inlining.h
index 3339b0e..4ee5c5a 100644
--- a/src/interp/engine/interp-inlining.h
+++ b/src/interp/engine/interp-inlining.h
@@ -78,8 +78,17 @@
    4.3, we need to insert a label, and ensure its address
    is taken (to stop it being optimised out).  However,
    this reduces performance on PowerPC by approx 1 - 2%.
+
+   With gcc 5 and newer an asm statement with a "memory"
+   clobber argument explicitly sets a memory barrier for the
+   compiler, preventing it from reordering memory accesses
+   in a way that breaks decaching.
 */
-#if (__GNUC__ == 4) && (__GNUC_MINOR__ >= 3)
+#if (__GNUC__ > 4)
+#define DEF_GUARD_TABLE(level) /* none */
+#define GUARD(opcode, level)   __asm__("" ::: "memory");
+#define GUARD_TBLS             /* none */
+#elif (__GNUC__ == 4) && (__GNUC_MINOR__ >= 3)
 #define DEF_GUARD_TABLE(level) DEF_HANDLER_TABLE(level, GUARD)
 #define GUARD(opcode, level)   label(opcode, level, GUARD)
 #define GUARD_TBLS             , HNDLR_TBLS(GUARD)
-- 
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