Re: locking problems with mips atomicity ?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 12:44:34AM +0200, Harm Verhagen wrote:
> The code from linux 2.4.26 arch-mips/atomic.h looks _very_ similar to
> the code described in the thread that has a BUG.
> 
> static __inline__ void atomic_add(int i, atomic_t * v)
> {
>       unsigned long temp;
> 
>       __asm__ __volatile__(
>               "1:   ll      %0, %1      # atomic_add\n"
>               "     addu    %0, %2                  \n"
>               "     sc      %0, %1                  \n"
>               "     beqz    %0, 1b                  \n"
>               : "=&r" (temp), "=m" (v->counter)
>               : "Ir" (i), "m" (v->counter));
> }
> 
> So I wonder if there is a bug here. 
> Can some MIPS guru check ? :)

It won't be a problem in the kernel.  The problem only happens when the
assembler expands a macro to multiple instructions including a load,
and that only happens for position-independent code; the kernel is not
PIC.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer