From: Michael Schnell <mschnell@lumino.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: implementing Futex
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:46:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A85327D.2040003@lumino.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908131839.41803.arnd@arndb.de>
Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> The sh version just disables interrupts to get atomicity.
>
Looking at the sh - code it seem that there is no real difference (but
the operation itself) between "futex_atomuic_op_inuser" and
"futex_atomic_cmp_inatomic".
Does that mean that both in fact do run in the same mode (I suppose
Kernel Mode and thus the CPU's "System Mode" rather than the CPU's "User
Mode".
With that - and supposing that as of Kernel 2.6.31 the sh code I see in
Kernel 2.6.30 is used in /asm/generic, I would be able to just use the
"generic" case for "implementing" a working Futex syscall for the NIOS).
This given, I could concentrate on the User part (pthread_mutex_XXX() in
glibc). What a nice option :)
-Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-14 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-13 15:03 implementing Futex Michael Schnell
2009-08-13 16:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-13 17:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-14 9:46 ` Michael Schnell [this message]
2009-08-14 11:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-17 8:57 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-08-14 9:48 ` Michael Schnell
[not found] ` <4A8525A1.205@lumino.de>
[not found] ` <200908141128.01179.arnd@arndb.de>
2009-08-14 10:03 ` Michael Schnell
2009-08-14 10:11 ` Michael Schnell
2009-08-14 11:55 ` Michael Schnell
2009-08-14 12:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-14 12:56 ` Michael Schnell
2009-08-14 13:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-31 16:30 ` Darren Hart
2009-08-17 8:50 ` Michael Schnell
2009-08-17 11:53 ` [Nios2-dev] " Michael Schnell
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