Re: [FIX] sysmips(MIPS_ATMIC_SET, ...) ret_from_sys_call vs. o32_ret_from_sys_call

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 11:21:43AM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

>  Ralf, BTW, what do you think if we send a segfault on a memory access
> violation instead of returning an error?  That would make the behaviour of
> MIPS_ATMIC_SET consistent for any memory contents.  Does anything actually
> rely on the function to return an error in such a situation? 

Afaik the only user of MIPS_ATOMIC_SET ever running on Linux/MIPS is the
Linuxthreads code you wrote, so no.  Aside of that the semantics of this
syscall were defined by older MIPS operating systems such as Risc/OS and
I think we should follow their example.

  Ralf