Re: MIPS_ATOMIC_SET again (Re: newest kernel

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

On Mon, 28 May 2001, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> Use a global variable testable by the inline code?

 With both variants inlined?  Now that's really ugly.

> >  Are vr41xx plain ISA I or crippled ISA II+ CPUs?
> 
> Actually, they are crippled MIPS III+ 64-bit CPUs

 Then an ll/sc and lld/scd emulation seems to be most appropriate here.  I
don't think we want to add _test_and_set() to mips64*-linux. 

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