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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Sathesh Babu Edara <satheshbabu.edara@analog.com>
Cc: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: LL and SC instruction simulation
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:54:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060109145425.GA4286@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601090749.k097nFaZ017891@lilac.hdcindia.analog.com>

On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 01:19:46PM +0530, Sathesh Babu Edara wrote:

>    We have ported linux-2.4.18 and linux-2-6.12 kernel (mips.org)onto MIPS
> processor (CPU type lx4189).
> 
>  We observed that on 2.4 kernel,ll and sc instruction exception handlers
> hitting very often.
> Where as on linux-2.6.12 this is not happening.

> Can anybody have idea why this instructions are hitting on 2.4.18 kernel and
> not on 2-6.12 kernel.

Only ll/sc instructions in application software can be emulated, so it
would seem your application is behaving different on 2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

> What is the significance of these instructions?.

All sorts of atomic operations.  I suggest you read up on them in See MIPS
Run or short of that in the MIPS32/64 specification.

  Ralf

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-09 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-08 21:00 ALCHEMY: AU1200 USB Host Controller (OHCI/EHCI) Jordan Crouse
2005-12-10  5:13 ` [linux-usb-devel] " David Brownell
2005-12-10  6:42   ` Pete Popov
2005-12-12 10:51 ` Bora Sahin
2006-01-03 14:25 ` Matej Kupljen
2006-01-03 15:54   ` Jordan Crouse
2006-01-03 21:45     ` Matej Kupljen
2006-01-04  7:18       ` Matej Kupljen
2006-01-04 12:50       ` Sathesh Babu Edara
2006-01-04 12:50         ` Sathesh Babu Edara
2006-01-04 13:06         ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-01-09  4:54           ` LL and SC instruction simulation Sathesh Babu Edara
2006-01-09  4:54             ` Sathesh Babu Edara
2006-01-09  7:43           ` Sathesh Babu Edara
2006-01-09  7:43             ` RE: Sathesh Babu Edara
2006-01-09  7:49             ` LL and SC instruction simulation Sathesh Babu Edara
2006-01-09  7:49               ` Sathesh Babu Edara
2006-01-09 14:54               ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2006-01-09 15:17                 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-01-09 15:17                   ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-01-09 15:21                   ` Ralf Baechle
2006-01-09 15:30                     ` Ralf Baechle
2006-01-09 15:47                       ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-01-09 15:47                         ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-01-09 15:51                         ` Ralf Baechle
2006-01-09  9:00             ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-01-09  9:00               ` Re: Kevin D. Kissell
2006-01-09 21:23               ` [processor frequency] Wolfgang Denk
2006-01-09 21:53                 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2006-01-09 23:01                   ` Wolfgang Denk
2006-01-04 12:12     ` ALCHEMY: AU1200 USB Host Controller (OHCI/EHCI) Matej Kupljen
2006-01-04 12:32       ` Matthias Lenk
2006-01-04 13:07         ` Matej Kupljen
2006-01-04 13:54           ` bora.sahin
2006-01-04 14:17             ` Matej Kupljen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-01-09  5:19 LL and SC instruction simulation Sathesh Babu Edara
2006-01-09  5:19 ` Sathesh Babu Edara

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