From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>
Cc: bkoz@redhat.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Kernel ll/sc emulation?
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 19:24:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020701192415.A2617@lucon.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1025574717.30577.48.camel@ghostwheel.cygnus.com>; from echristo@redhat.com on Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:51:57PM -0700
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:51:57PM -0700, Eric Christopher wrote:
>
> > What do you meant by "it'll be emulated if it fails"? I didn't see any
> > ll/sc emulation in the Linux mips kernel. If you use ll/sc on CPU which
> > doesn't implement ll/sc, your binary will just dump core.
>
> The kernel should trap and emulate the instruction at that point, at
> least as far as I've been told.
>
That is a news to me. I couldn't find it anywhere in the Linux mips
kernel. Could someone point me to the right place in the Linux mips
kernel source tree?
Thanks.
H.J.
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2002-07-02 2:24 ` H. J. Lu [this message]
2002-07-02 16:24 ` Kernel ll/sc emulation? Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-07-02 16:31 ` H. J. Lu
2002-07-02 16:33 ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-07-02 18:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-02 20:08 ` Ralf Baechle
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