Re: linux 2.4.5: sysmips(MIPS_ATOMIC_SET) is broken (yep, again...)

[Florian Lohoff <flo@rfc822.org>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 01:14:16PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  Once again a sysmips() patch.  This time the exception fixup code is
> broken -- it never returns (well, it probably returns *somewhere* via a
> following fixup entry).  Also for whatever reason the R3k code is missing. 
> 
>  The following patch fixes it.  While I was at it, I modified contraints a
> bit and replaced some of embedded "\t" chars with tabs (the code was
> completely unreadable before -- now it should be a bit better, as much as
> embedded asm can be).
> 
>  The R3k variant works fine for me.  I was unable to thest the ll/sc one,
> but the semantics should be unchanged, i.e. if it worked before, so it
> will now.  The patch should go into Linus' tree as well. 

How is this patch supposed to work in the means of how does it come around
the -MAXERRNO stuff in scall32 ?

Flo
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