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Emulating LL/SC with cmpxchg is not correct, since it can suffer from the ABA problem. Portable parallel code, however, is written assuming only cmpxchg--and not LL/SC--is available. This means that in practice emulating LL/SC with cmpxchg is a viable alternative. The appended emulates LL/SC pairs in aarch64 with cmpxchg helpers. This works in both user and system mode. In usermode, it avoids pausing all other CPUs to perform the LL/SC pair. The subsequent performance and scalability improvement is significant, as the plots below show. They plot the throughput of atomic_add-bench compiled for ARM and executed on a 64-core x86 machine. Hi-res plots: http://imgur.com/a/JVc8Y atomic_add-bench: 1000000 ops/thread, [0,1] range 18 ++---------+----------+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++ +cmpxchg +-E--+ + + + + + | 16 ++master +-H--+ ++ || | 14 ++ ++ | | | 12 ++| ++ | | | 10 ++++ ++ 8 ++E ++ |+++ | 6 ++ | ++ | | | 4 ++ | ++ | | | 2 +H++E+--- ++ + | +E++----+E+---+--+E+----++E+------+E+------+E++----+E+---+--+E| 0 ++H-H----H-+-----H----+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++ 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Number of threads atomic_add-bench: 1000000 ops/thread, [0,2] range 18 ++---------+----------+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++ +cmpxchg +-E--+ + + + + + | 16 ++master +-H--+ ++ | | | 14 ++E ++ | | | 12 ++| ++ |+++ | 10 ++ | ++ 8 ++ | ++ | | | 6 ++ | ++ | | | 4 ++ | ++ | +E+--- | 2 +H+ +E+-----+++ +++ +++ ---+E+-----+E+------+++ +++ + +E+---+--+E+----++E+------+E+--- ++++ +++ + +E| 0 ++H-H----H-+-----H----+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++ 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Number of threads atomic_add-bench: 1000000 ops/thread, [0,128] range 70 ++---------+----------+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++ +cmpxchg +-E--+ + + + + + | 60 ++master +-H--+ +++ ---+E+-----+E+------+E+ | +E+------E-------+E+--- | | --- +++ | 50 ++ +++--- ++ | -+E+ | 40 ++ +++---- ++ | E- | | --| | 30 ++ -- +++ ++ | +E+ | 20 ++E+ ++ |E+ | | | 10 ++ ++ + + + + + + + | 0 +HH-H----H-+-----H----+---------+----------+----------+----------+---++ 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Number of threads atomic_add-bench: 1000000 ops/thread, [0,1024] range 160 ++---------+---------+----------+---------+----------+----------+---++ +cmpxchg +-E--+ + + + + + | 140 ++master +-H--+ +++ +++ | -+E+-----+E+-------E| 120 ++ +++ ---- +++ | +++ ----E-- | 100 ++ --E--- +++ ++ | +++ ---- +++ | 80 ++ --E-- ++ | ---- +++ | | -+E+ | 60 ++ ---- +++ ++ | +E+- | 40 ++ -- ++ | +E+ | 20 +EE+ ++ +++ + + + + + + | 0 +HH-H---H--+-----H---+----------+---------+----------+----------+---++ 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 Number of threads Backports commit 1dd089d0eec060dcd8478735114d98421d414805 from qemu |
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Unicorn Engine
Unicorn is a lightweight, multi-platform, multi-architecture CPU emulator framework based on QEMU.
Unicorn offers some unparalleled features:
- Multi-architecture: ARM, ARM64 (ARMv8), M68K, MIPS, SPARC, and X86 (16, 32, 64-bit)
- Clean/simple/lightweight/intuitive architecture-neutral API
- Implemented in pure C language, with bindings for Crystal, Clojure, Visual Basic, Perl, Rust, Ruby, Python, Java, .NET, Go, Delphi/Free Pascal and Haskell.
- Native support for Windows & *nix (with Mac OSX, Linux, *BSD & Solaris confirmed)
- High performance via Just-In-Time compilation
- Support for fine-grained instrumentation at various levels
- Thread-safety by design
- Distributed under free software license GPLv2
Further information is available at http://www.unicorn-engine.org
License
This project is released under the GPL license.
Compilation & Docs
See docs/COMPILE.md file for how to compile and install Unicorn.
More documentation is available in docs/README.md.
Contact
Contact us via mailing list, email or twitter for any questions.
Contribute
If you want to contribute, please pick up something from our Github issues.
We also maintain a list of more challenged problems in a TODO list.
CREDITS.TXT records important contributors of our project.