> which affected chips are known to you? Any facts or links?
I only came across the ARM paper I mentioned in the other thread, I
suppose it will be hard to find confessions about this.
Anyway, as there is a way to get rid of the potential problem by making
use of the knowledge the Kernel has abou
Michael Schnell wrote:
- the code for the old sub-arch is not very good (and it can't be good,
as here Kernel-help is necessary):
[...]
- it might fail as it's not granted that all ARMv5 chips have a
correct implementation of the atomicness of the swap instruction
which affected chips
In the thread "Threading support and C library under Linux/Unix",
On 24 June 2010 10:05, Henry Vermaak wrote:
Which exposes the user helpers here:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S;h=7ee48e7f8f318a7b453e12849b60a6832bb85770;hb
