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50 changes: 50 additions & 0 deletions src/asm.rs
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Expand Up @@ -58,3 +58,53 @@ pub fn wfi() {
() => {}
}
}

/// Instruction Synchronization Barrier
///
/// Flushes the pipeline in the processor, so that all instructions following the `ISB` are fetched
/// from cache or memory, after the instruction has been completed.
pub fn isb() {
match () {
#[cfg(target_arch = "arm")]
() => unsafe {
asm!("isb 0xF" : : : "memory" : "volatile");
},
#[cfg(not(target_arch = "arm"))]
() => {}
}
}

/// Data Synchronization Barrier
///
/// Acts as a special kind of memory barrier. No instruction in program order after this
/// instruction can execute until this instruction completes. This instruction completes only when
/// both:
///
/// * any explicit memory access made before this instruction is complete
/// * all cache and branch predictor maintenance operations before this instruction complete
pub fn dsb() {
match () {
#[cfg(target_arch = "arm")]
() => unsafe {
asm!("dsb 0xF" : : : "memory" : "volatile");
},
#[cfg(not(target_arch = "arm"))]
() => {}
}
}

/// Data Memory Barrier
///
/// Ensures that all explicit memory accesses that appear in program order before the `DMB`
/// instruction are observed before any explicit memory accesses that appear in program order
/// after the `DMB` instruction.
pub fn dmb() {
match () {
#[cfg(target_arch = "arm")]
() => unsafe {
asm!("dmb 0xF" : : : "memory" : "volatile");
},
#[cfg(not(target_arch = "arm"))]
() => {}
}
}