PATCH: Always use ll/sc for mips

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, H. J. Lu wrote:

> >  It sucks performance-wise with no visible gain, so I don't think it is
> > really desireable.  Since the no-ll/sc case is handled correctly, I see no
> 
> Only <sys/tas.h> is covered by the kernel interface. But it doesn't
> cover atomicity.h in glibc and libstdc++.

 Even if nobody bothered fixing these, that doesn't mean some other code
is useless.  If you don't want to implement these with _test_and_set(),
then just put equivalent ll/sc code there, which will work thanks to the
emulation.  Depending on the operation it may even be faster than
_test_and_set() as ll/sc provides a generic way to perform atomic
operations, while using _test_and_set() might require a spinlock. 

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