Re: Build failure for R3000 DECstation

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> Make that change k0 to a non-zero value.  So a R3000 UP spinlock can look
> like:
> 
>       move    k0, zero
>       li      t0, 1
> 0:    sw      t0, spin
>       bnez    k0, 0b
> 
>       [critical section]
> 
>       sw      zero, spin

 Great! -- I haven't thought of such a solution.  I'll prepare some code
and see whether there are no races.  It should work fine, indeed.

> (Who should write thousant times ``I shall not post with a phone in my hand'')

 ;-)

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