[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
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@347971 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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