Hi Bogdan

Looking at the fastlock.h, would it not be preferential to use O/S type spinlocks such as the linux spinlock.h? Does fastlock perform a spinlock function?

Apart from this, my cross compiler is gcc 3.2.1 which complains about the following asm construct in fastlock.h line 77:
       asm volatile(
               " btsl $0, %1 \n\t"
               " adcl $0, %0 \n\t"
: "=q" (val), "=m" (*lock) : "0"(val) : "memory", "cc" /* "cc" */
       )
inconsistent operand constraints in an `asm'

gcc 4 does not complain about this.

Regards

Cedric



Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
Hi Cedric,

fastlock implementation is architecture dependent, but there are other options for the locking support. See in Makefile.defs:

# -DFAST_LOCK
# uses fast arhitecture specific locking (see the arh. specific section)
# -DUSE_SYSV_SEM
#        uses sys v sems for locking (slower & limited number)
# -DUSE_PTHREAD_MUTEX
# uses pthread mutexes, faster than sys v or posix sems, but do not
#        work on all systems inter-processes (e.g. linux)
# -DUSE_POSIX_SEM
#        uses posix semaphores for locking (faster than sys v)


use any of them in DEFS+=.

regards,
bogdan

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Hi

I am cross compiling openser to the cris platform, but need to write an
extention to fastlock.h for this processor.

Where can I find information on what the purpose and function of fastlock.h is
so that I cam implement code for the new platform?

Thanks

Cedric

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