Subject: Re: Support for atomic locks in lock.h
To: Soren S. Jorvang <soren@wheel.dk>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-mips
Date: 11/24/2001 19:18:40 
On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 02:30:42AM +0100, Soren S. Jorvang wrote:

 > For a first pass, we could have the kernel emulate the LL/SC
 > instructions and LLADDR register when necessary.

In order for that to work, note you would need to unmap the destination
page in order to catch stores to the locked address.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>