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AArch64: C1 and C2 volatile accesses are not sequentially consistent

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        In C2 we use LDAR/STLR to handle volatile accesses, but in C1 and the interpreter we use separate DMB instructions and relaxed loads. When used together, these do not form a sequentially-consistent memory ordering. For example, if stores use STLR and loads use LDR;DMB a simple Dekker idiom will fail.

        This is extremely hard to test because the loads and stores have to be in separately-compiled methods, but it is incorrect, and likely to fail in very weakly-ordered implementations.

              aph Andrew Haley
              aph Andrew Haley
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