From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
Cc: Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>,
bkoz@redhat.com, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Kernel ll/sc emulation?
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 14:58:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020702185848.GB6785@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020701192415.A2617@lucon.org>
On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:24:15PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> 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?
Early 2.4; after 2.4.2 but before 2.4.9 or so.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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2002-07-02 2:24 ` Kernel ll/sc emulation? H. J. Lu
2002-07-02 16:24 ` 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 [this message]
2002-07-02 20:08 ` Ralf Baechle
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