On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:48:38AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Some MIPS processors (e.g. Cavium Octeon II) dynamically check if the
> CPU supports ll/sc within sys_futex, and return a ENOSYS errno if they
> don't, even though the architecture implements sys_futex.
>
> Handle this situation
- On Sep 13, 2015, at 12:29 PM, Paul E. McKenney paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com
wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:48:38AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> Some MIPS processors (e.g. Cavium Octeon II) dynamically check if the
>> CPU supports ll/sc within sys_futex, and return a ENOSYS errno
Some MIPS processors (e.g. Cavium Octeon II) dynamically check if the
CPU supports ll/sc within sys_futex, and return a ENOSYS errno if they
don't, even though the architecture implements sys_futex.
Handle this situation by always building the sys_futex compatibility
layer, and fall-back on it if
