[PATCH 9/9] ARM: Add SWP/SWPB emulation for ARMv7 processors (v5)
Leif Lindholm
leif.lindholm at arm.com
Thu Sep 2 13:04:24 EDT 2010
> From: Olof Johansson [mailto:olof at lixom.net]
> >
> > This patch adds the alternative solution to emulate the SWP and SWPB
> > instructions using LDREX/STREX sequences, and log statistics to
> > /proc/cpu/swp_emulation. To correctly deal with copy-on-write, it
> also
>
> Sounds like debugfs would be a better place to export this through?
> That's what PPC does.
It made sense to me to place it with /proc/cpu/alignment.
Moving both of these into debugfs might well make sense in the future,
but I think that should be a separate patch.
/
Leif
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