Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:51:06AM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:
>
> > > Could
> > > there be a runtime linking thing with a cpu detection wether we
> > > have ll/sc or not ?
> >
> > This is a wonderful idea. It should incorporate into future MIPS CPU
> > support structure.
>
> But what is the better alternative? Emulating ll/sc is a generic facility.
> Aside of making that more efficient the only idea I have is putting entire
> atomic operations into the kernel such that the standard case should result
> in at most one exception to be handled in the kernel.
>
When I was playing with NEC Vr4111 (a MIPS III cpu but without ll/sc), I
notice the following comment in
glibc/linuxthreads/sysdeps/mips/pt-machine.h file (Is that Ralf's
comment?) :
"
TODO: This version makes use of MIPS ISA 2 features. It won't
work on ISA 1. These machines will have to take the overhead of
a sysmips(MIPS_ATOMIC_SET, ...) syscall which isn't implemented
yet correctly. There is however a better solution for R3000
uniprocessor machines possible. */
"
I remembered I found a patch which actually uses mips syscalls. For
some reasons, it did not work in the end.
BTW, I didn't know the kernel already has ll/sc emulation. That seems
to be necessary, even just for the binary compability sake.
Jun
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