On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 12:11:39PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Of the other architectures you list, only ARM is really important. And no,
> arm doesn't do swap. It does LL/SC (except they call it "ldrex/strex",
> which I assume stands for "load/store with reservation and X just because
> X is cool. Yeah, we're cool" (*)).
> (*) Actually, some arm docs I found implies that "ex" stands for
> "exclusive", but that leaves me wondering what the "r" stands for?
FYI. The standard instructions:
ldr = load register
str = store register
The new (ARM architecture v6 and above) atomic instructions:
ldrex = load register exclusive
strex = store register exclusive
Previous architecture versions only have the 32-bit and 8 bit
unconditional swap instructions. Luckily they're unlikely to be
used for SMP in the field.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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