On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:02:01AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > >>And no, RMW on MMIO isn't "problematic" at all, either. > >> > >>An RMW op is a read op, a modify op, and a write op, all rolled > >>into one opcode. But three actual operations. > > > >Maybe for some CPUs, but not all. ARM for instance can't use the > >load exclusive and store exclusive instructions to MMIO space. > > Sure, your CPU doesn't have RMW instructions -- how to emulate > those if you don't have them is a totally different thing. I thought that ARM's load exclusive and store exclusive instructions were its equivalent of LL and SC, which RISC machines typically use to build atomic sequences of instructions -- and which normally cannot be applied to MMIO space. Thanx, Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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