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SubjectRe: Microblaze - The fist year
On 04/13/2010 03:27 PM, Michal Simek wrote:
>
> yes, futex is there. You can check it in
> arch/microblaze/include/asm/futex.h
Great ! I'll check how this is done.
>
>> Does Microblaze MMU Linux support SMP ?
>
> It is possible to connect several MicroBlazes but the problem is
> missing cache coherency modul. I hope that Xilinx will release any
> version which will support it.
> We haven't done any significant work to support it but it is expected
> solution which will happen.

Besides cache coherency, another problem might be doing FUTEX. here (I
suppose) SMP safe atomic user space operations are necessary. many
simple RISK (load/store-) CPUs don't provide these (new ARMs provide
"load-locked / store-conditional" on that behalf as an extension to the
load/store paradigm. I suppose these can be done in an SMP-safe way,
supposedly using the hardware that provides cache coherency).

-Michael


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