On 10/24/2016 09:17 AM, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> Older ARC700 cores (ARC750 specifically) lack instructions to implement
> atomic r-w-w. This is problematic for userspace libraries such as NPTL
> which need atomic primitives. So enable them by providing kernel assist.
> This is costly but really the o
Older ARC700 cores (ARC750 specifically) lack instructions to implement
atomic r-w-w. This is problematic for userspace libraries such as NPTL
which need atomic primitives. So enable them by providing kernel assist.
This is costly but really the only sane soluton (othern than tight
spinning using t