Re: Once again: test_and_set for CPUs w/o LL/SC

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

Hello Ralf,

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 01:57:29PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> 
> > The patch is only for the VR41XX. I'm not shure what other CPUs
> > fall into the same category. If I read binutils/opcodes/mips-opc.c
> > correctly, then the TX39XX, while not being ISA2, has beql.
> 
>  I think I have TX39XX docs somewhere -- I may check if that's true.
> 
> > Please tell me if the patch is acceptable.
> > 
> > Possible options:
> > - don't mess with tlbex-r4k.S
> > - or unconditonally replace the 'nop's before 'eret's in tlbex-r4k.S with
> >   'move k1,zero' plus a comment
> 
>  I'd go for that, so that VR41XX user binaries work fine on real MIPS II+
> processors as well.  There is no performance nor space impact for
> tlbex-r4k.S and for stackframe.h the single-instruction impact is not
> critical, or I believe there is a single free slot in RESTORE_SOME that
> may be reused (after a bit of restructuring to make sure
> RESTORE_SP_AND_RET isn't used alone). 

This also would prevent me from shooting myself in the foot by accidentally
running a VR41XX user binaries on a kernel with "clear k1" support disabled ;-)

> > - drop the CONFIG_CPU_USERSPACE_LLSC_EMUL configuration option and
> >   always clear k1 in RESTORE_SP_AND_RET for the VR41XX
> 
>  And this one as well.  There is no need for a separate config option --
> lone comments in place should suffice.
> 
>  But you may ask Ralf before making further changes as he is the one to
> decide if the patch goes in. 

If this is OK with you, I would prepare a patch that just
unconditionally clears k1 before every eret in tlbex-r4k.S
and stackframe.h according to Maciej's suggestions, and adds
a comment explaining its purpose.


Regards,
Johannes