On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Philip Blundell wrote:

> >to handle a "swp rd,rs,[rn]" instruction that caused the abort.
> 
> Yes, I agree.

Hm, is there any instance where gcc will open-code a SWP instruction?

Or are there any syscall handlers which are likely to use SWP (presuming
the majority of the kernel mutexes never get paged out, and thus
ignoring any non-aborting variety)?

c.


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