Re: Enabling pthreads to use ll/sc instead of emulate_load_store_insn

["H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 06:12:33AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 07:52:34PM -0800, Wayne Gowcher wrote:
> 
> > The processor is an r4k and the application is being
> > compiled with mips2 switch, which I thought would
> > allow it to generate the ll/sc instructions natively
> > and not have to generate system calls to emulate it.
> > I am guessing this is because the pthread library I
> > have is from the sgi ftp site and it was compiled for
> > mips1 ??
> >
> > If someone has any insight into how to get libpthread
> > to use ll/sc instructions instead of the mips system
> > call I would really appreciate hearing from them.
> 
> Rebuild it with -mips2.  The inline code in glibc is coded such that it'll
> automatically use ll/sc then.

I believe I enabled ll/sc unconditinally in glibc. Make sure you use
a recent glibc. The one from my RedHat 7.3 port should be ok.


H.J.