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Alex Bradbury 6b2f0de806 [docs][AtomicExpandPass] Document the alternate lowering strategy for part-word atomicrmw/cmpxchg
D47882, D48130 and D48131 introduce a new lowering strategy for part-word 
atomicrmw/cmpxchg and uses it to lower these operations for the RISC-V target. 
Rather than having AtomicExpandPass produce the LL/SC loop in the IR level, it 
instead calculates the necessary mask values and inserts a target-specific 
intrinsic, which is lowered at a much later stage (after register allocation). 
This ensures that architecture-specific restrictions for forward-progress in 
LL/SC loops can be guaranteed.

This patch documents this new AtomicExpandPass functionality. See the previous 
llvm-dev RFC for more info 
<http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-June/123993.html>.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52234

llvm-svn: 347971
2018-11-30 09:23:24 +00:00
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BitCodeFormat.rst Add the ShadowCallStack attribute 2018-04-03 20:10:40 +00:00
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BranchWeightMetadata.rst [TI removal] Remove discussion of TerminatorInst from the LLVM 2018-10-18 07:40:24 +00:00
BugLifeCycle.rst Introduce bug life cycle documentation. 2018-11-07 08:49:36 +00:00
Bugpoint.rst Rename DEBUG macro to LLVM_DEBUG. 2018-05-14 12:53:11 +00:00
CFIVerify.rst [cfi-verify] Abort on unsupported targets 2018-07-16 15:26:44 +00:00
CMake.rst [benchmark] Re-enable benchmarks on all platforms including Windows 2018-09-07 21:47:00 +00:00
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CommandLine.rst Rename DEBUG macro to LLVM_DEBUG. 2018-05-14 12:53:11 +00:00
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Contributing.rst [Docs] Add LLVM for Grad Students to Contributing page. 2018-03-02 14:35:02 +00:00
Coroutines.rst [coroutines] Add support for llvm.coro.noop intrinsics 2018-04-02 16:55:12 +00:00
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DeveloperPolicy.rst fix an out of date paragraph noticed by Bryce Lelbach 2018-10-16 16:54:10 +00:00
Docker.rst Migrate dockerfiles to use multi-stage builds. 2018-03-26 15:12:30 +00:00
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GarbageCollection.rst [GC docs] Update the gcroot documentation to reflect recent simplifcations to GCStrategy configurability 2018-11-12 20:30:50 +00:00
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HowToBuildWithPGO.rst Add docs+a script for building clang/LLVM with PGO 2018-10-26 20:56:03 +00:00
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HowToSubmitABug.rst [docs] Fix mention of GCC frontend 2018-01-15 17:11:22 +00:00
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LangRef.rst [clang][slh] add attribute for speculative load hardening 2018-11-27 19:56:46 +00:00
Lexicon.rst Update the coding standards and developer policy documentation surrounding whitespace. 2018-08-10 17:26:07 +00:00
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XRayExample.rst [XRay][docs] Chrome Trace Viewer Instructions 2018-08-28 17:36:30 +00:00
XRayFDRFormat.rst Tidy some language in the xray documentation. 2018-05-27 09:19:03 +00:00
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LLVM Documentation
==================

LLVM's documentation is written in reStructuredText, a lightweight
plaintext markup language (file extension `.rst`). While the
reStructuredText documentation should be quite readable in source form, it
is mostly meant to be processed by the Sphinx documentation generation
system to create HTML pages which are hosted on <http://llvm.org/docs/> and
updated after every commit. Manpage output is also supported, see below.

If you instead would like to generate and view the HTML locally, install
Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org/> and then do:

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=true -DSPHINX_OUTPUT_HTML=true <src-dir>
    make -j3 docs-llvm-html
    $BROWSER <build-dir>/docs//html/index.html

The mapping between reStructuredText files and generated documentation is
`docs/Foo.rst` <-> `<build-dir>/docs//html/Foo.html` <-> `http://llvm.org/docs/Foo.html`.

If you are interested in writing new documentation, you will want to read
`SphinxQuickstartTemplate.rst` which will get you writing documentation
very fast and includes examples of the most important reStructuredText
markup syntax.

Manpage Output
===============

Building the manpages is similar to building the HTML documentation. The
primary difference is to use the `man` makefile target, instead of the
default (which is `html`). Sphinx then produces the man pages in the
directory `<build-dir>/docs/man/`.

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_SPHINX=true -DSPHINX_OUTPUT_MAN=true <src-dir>
    make -j3 docs-llvm-man
    man -l >build-dir>/docs/man/FileCheck.1

The correspondence between .rst files and man pages is
`docs/CommandGuide/Foo.rst` <-> `<build-dir>/docs//man/Foo.1`.
These .rst files are also included during HTML generation so they are also
viewable online (as noted above) at e.g.
`http://llvm.org/docs/CommandGuide/Foo.html`.

Checking links
==============

The reachability of external links in the documentation can be checked by
running:

    cd docs/
    make -f Makefile.sphinx linkcheck

Doxygen page Output
==============

Install doxygen <http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/download.html> and dot2tex <https://dot2tex.readthedocs.io/en/latest>.

    cd <build-dir>
    cmake -DLLVM_ENABLE_DOXYGEN=On <llvm-top-src-dir>
    make doxygen-llvm # for LLVM docs
    make doxygen-clang # for clang docs

It will generate html in
    
    <build-dir>/docs/doxygen/html # for LLVM docs
    <build-dir>/tools/clang/docs/doxygen/html # for clang docs