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SubjectRe: alpha: half done futex implementation
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> Also, there's a bug in the powerpc implementation.  It appears that  
> oparg is clobbered, and if stwcx fails the operation will be
> repeated with incorrect inputs.

If either the lwarx or the stwcx. faults, the routine returns -EFAULT
and doesn't retry (label "3" is the end of the asm).

If the stwcx. fails because the CPU lost the reservation, %1 isn't
clobbered as far as I see?


Segher



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