Kernel ll/sc emulation?

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On Mon, Jul 01, 2002 at 06:51:57PM -0700, Eric Christopher wrote:
> 
> > What do you meant by "it'll be emulated if it fails"? I didn't see any
> > ll/sc emulation in the Linux mips kernel. If you use ll/sc on CPU which
> > doesn't implement ll/sc, your binary will just dump core.
> 
> The kernel should trap and emulate the instruction at that point, at
> least as far as I've been told.
> 

That is a news to me. I couldn't find it anywhere in the Linux mips
kernel. Could someone point me to the right place in the Linux mips
kernel source tree?

Thanks.


H.J.


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