Re: Kernel ll/sc emulation?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 07:24:15PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:51:57PM -0700, Eric Christopher wrote:
> > 
> > > What do you meant by "it'll be emulated if it fails"? I didn't see any
> > > ll/sc emulation in the Linux mips kernel. If you use ll/sc on CPU which
> > > doesn't implement ll/sc, your binary will just dump core.
> > 
> > The kernel should trap and emulate the instruction at that point, at
> > least as far as I've been told.
> > 
> 
> That is a news to me. I couldn't find it anywhere in the Linux mips
> kernel. Could someone point me to the right place in the Linux mips
> kernel source tree?

Early 2.4; after 2.4.2 but before 2.4.9 or so.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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