Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:58:11 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation |
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 03:46:41PM +0000, David Howells wrote: > Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > Do you now see what I mean? (yup, ARM is a llsc architecture.) > > Out of interest, at what point did ARM become so? ARM6?
Yes, ARM architecture version 6.
See the ldrex (load exclusive) / strex (store exclusive) instructions.
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