Re: [PATCH] Improve atomic.h implementation robustness

[Dominic Sweetman <dom@mips.com>]

Thiemo,

> I had guessed you already know what i mean. :-)

Generally a bad guess, of course...

> Current 64bit MIPS kernels run in (C)KSEG0, and exploit sign-extension
> to optimize symbol loads (2 instead of 6/7 instructions, the same as in
> 32bit kernels).

Gross... yet ingenious. I see the problem.  You want to use a
32-bit-pointer "la" for the addresses of static variables in the
kernel build (which works, because the kernel is in the
32-bit-pointer-accessible 'kseg0').

The assembler macro was a very Linux solution, if you don't mind my
saying so...  A more native compiler fix would probably be a good
idea.

What ABI are you using for the 64-bit kernel build (n64? how do you
get it to build non-PIC?)  And what constraints are there on
your choice of gcc version? - it would be easier if 3.4 was OK.

--
Dominic Sweetman
MIPS Technologies