On 3/13/22 11:29, Warner Losh wrote:
So I was assuming that the cas instructions for arm use start/end_exclsive 
under the covers.
Is that the case?

Nope.  The store exclusive guest insn is implemented with a host cmpxchg.

Oh, I'd forgotten about the old arm cmpxchg64 syscall, which is still implemented with start/end_exclusive. That should get fixed...


r~

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