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Re: PATCH: Always use ll/sc for mips

From: Hiroyuki Machida <machida at sm dot sony dot co dot jp>
To: ralf at oss dot sgi dot com
Cc: kevink at mips dot com, hjl at lucon dot org, linux-mips at oss dot sgi dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 23:14:06 +0900 (JST)
Subject: Re: PATCH: Always use ll/sc for mips
References: <20020702220651.B9566@dea.linux-mips.net><00d401c22337$7e731580$10eca8c0@grendel><20020704155726.A28268@dea.linux-mips.net>

From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Always use ll/sc for mips
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:57:26 +0200

> No, Sony's ABI isn't MP proof and will break silently on MP systems.  As
> such I can't consider it anything else but a hack.  sysmips(MIPS_ATOMIC_SET,
> ...) and ll/sc however are MP proof.

We can support MP with few modifications.  

On MP system, the pseudo-device will provide ll/sc if CPU support
it. Otherwise, the pseudo-device will be failed to open. In this
case, sysmips() will be used as last resort in libc.

---
Hiroyuki Machida
Sony Corp.

References:
- Re: PATCH: Always use ll/sc for mips
  - From: Ralf Baechle
- Re: PATCH: Always use ll/sc for mips
  - From: Kevin D. Kissell
- Re: PATCH: Always use ll/sc for mips
  - From: Ralf Baechle

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