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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2003-01-23 07:58:29 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2003-01-23 07:58:29 +0000
commitf6a7ce04b503695f1a4aaf48fc81b227d0daf052 (patch)
treef25e612f3209f4e2a8b69d0aa7d3b55e53e78dc2 /libpthread
parent7e6a89bcf073ba896a01793098c84462fd0f5f3b (diff)
Per patch from Nathan Field at ghs.com, fix the mips __compare_and_swap inline
function. Without this fix, pthread_mutex_lock/pthread_mutex_unlock don't work on mips.
Diffstat (limited to 'libpthread')
-rw-r--r--libpthread/linuxthreads/sysdeps/mips/pt-machine.h27
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libpthread/linuxthreads/sysdeps/mips/pt-machine.h b/libpthread/linuxthreads/sysdeps/mips/pt-machine.h
index 527392308..c40ab9e3e 100644
--- a/libpthread/linuxthreads/sysdeps/mips/pt-machine.h
+++ b/libpthread/linuxthreads/sysdeps/mips/pt-machine.h
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ __compare_and_swap (long int *p, long int oldval, long int newval)
"1:\tll\t%0,%4\n\t"
".set\tnoreorder\n\t"
"bne\t%0,%2,2f\n\t"
+ "move\t%0,$0\n\t" /*[NDF] Failure case. */
"move\t%0,%3\n\t"
".set\treorder\n\t"
"sc\t%0,%1\n\t"
@@ -87,4 +88,30 @@ __compare_and_swap (long int *p, long int oldval, long int newval)
: "r"(oldval), "r"(newval), "m"(*p));
return ret;
+
+ /*
+ 1: load locked: into ret(%0), from *p(0(%4))
+ branch to 2 if ret(%0) != oldval(%2)
+ Delay slot: move 0 into ret(%0) // [NDF] Added
+ Don't branch case:
+ move newval(%3) into ret(%0)
+ setcompare ret(%0) into *p(0(%1))
+ branch to 1 if ret(%0) == 0 (sc failed)
+ Delay slot: unknown/none
+ return
+
+ 2: Delay slot
+ return
+
+ll a b
+Sets a to the value pointed to by address b, and "locks" b so that if
+any of a number of things are attempted that might access b then the
+next sc will fail.
+
+sc a b
+Sets the memory address pointed to by b to the value in a atomically.
+If it succeeds then a will be set to 1, if it fails a will be set to 0.
+
+ */
+
}