Re: Once again: test_and_set for CPUs w/o LL/SC

[Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 05:17:24PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:
> 
> > That's probably going to be a more reliable design,
> > though I would still consider leaving the TLB refill handler
> > untouched and counting on the fact that k1 must contain
> > a non-lethal EntryLo value on return from the exception.
> 
>  Well, there is a "nop" just before the "eret" in all R4k-style TLB
> exception handlers.  I see no problem to use the slot for explicit
> clobbering of k0 or k1 with a single instruction like "li" or "lui". 

Now that you say it it's pretty obvious...

Thanks,
Johannes