Re: Re: [PATCH] Fix the atomic compare and swap function

Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.hppa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:34:46AM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > > -#define ASM_EAGAIN "11"
> > > +#define ASM_EAGAIN "-11"
> 
> If the check is wrong, I would change the compare instead of the
> define.  Error numbers are normally defined as positive values.
> 

Then, what about this patch?

--- ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h.orig	2007-05-20 23:15:37.000000000 +0200
+++ ports/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h	2007-05-20 23:15:59.000000000 +0200
@@ -71,10 +71,10 @@
 	"copy	%5, %%r24			\n\t"			\
 	"ble	" LWS "(%%sr2, %%r0)		\n\t"			\
 	"ldi	" LWS_CAS ", %%r20		\n\t"			\
+        "sub	%%r0, %%r21, %%r21		\n\t"			\
 	"cmpib,=,n " ASM_EAGAIN ",%%r21,0b	\n\t"			\
 	"nop					\n\t"			\
 	"stw	%%r28, %0			\n\t"			\
-        "sub	%%r0, %%r21, %%r21		\n\t"			\
 	"stw	%%r21, %1			\n\t"			\
 	: "=m" (lws_ret), "=m" (lws_errno), "=m" (*mem)			\
         : "r" (mem), "r" (oldval), "r" (newval)				\

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