atomic: fix load and store for armv7 and higher
The original atomic implementation in pulseaudio based on
libatomic stated that the intent was to use full memory barriers.
According to [1], the load and store implementation based on
gcc builtins matches sequential consistent (i.e. full memory barrier)
load and store ordering only for x86.
I observed random crashes in client applications using memfd srbchannel
transport on an armv8-aarch64 platform (cortex-a57).
In all those crashes the first read on the pstream descriptor
(the size field) was wrong and looked like it contained old data.
I boiled the relevant parts of the srbchannel implementation down to
a simple test case and could observe random test failures.
So I figured that the atomic implementation was broken for armv8
with respect to cross-cpu memory access ordering consistency.
In order to come up with a minimal fix, I used the newer
__atomic_load_n/__atomic_store_n builtins from gcc.
With
aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Linaro GCC 7.3-2018.05) 7.3.1 20180425
they compile to
ldar and stlxr on arm64, which is correct according to [1] and [2].
The other atomic operations based on __sync builtins don't need
to be touched since they already are of the full memory barrier
variety.
[1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pes20/cpp/cpp0xmappings.html
[2] <https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors
/b/processors-ip-blog/posts/armv8-a-architecture-2016-additions>
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