From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f6CKjgU04186 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:45:42 -0700 Received: from dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (u-43-18.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de [62.180.18.43]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f6CKjcV04183 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 13:45:39 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.waldorf-gmbh.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f6CKjKA24015; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:45:20 +0200 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:45:20 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Jan-Benedict Glaw Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, linux-mips@fnet.fr Subject: Re: ll/sc emulation patch Message-ID: <20010712224520.C23062@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <20010712203727.A18294@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010712203727.A18294@lug-owl.de>; from jbglaw@lug-owl.de on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:37:27PM +0200 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:37:27PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > At Linuxtag 2001 in Stuttgart/Germany, I was talking to Karsten about > completing userspace. He mentioned a patch for ll/sc emulation in > kernel which was mentioned to be sent some days ago to l-k. I searched > the archives, but couldn't find it. Any pointers? There is a bunch of patches for ll/sc and MIPS_ATOMIC_SET floating around. I came to the conclusion that I don't like any of them so I'm just working on fixing the thing once and for all. Ralf