On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 09:40:20PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > You may argue it's best to define a private copy of "cpu_has_llsc" > expanding to a constant for selecting the right set of atomic operations > at the compilation time and I would agree, but AFAIK the whole idea behind > our current implementation is to provide a snail-speed fallback or perhaps > to support more generic configurations at one point (e.g. one kernel for > all DECstations). > > For most processor settings the current setup already works, as they > provide ll/sc anyway, but not for MIPS I ones, like the R3k. Here's a > patch that makes the affected code work for such processors as well. > > OK to apply? Go ahead. Al had a bunch of other complaints which I'll try to take care of asap. Ralf
