DragonFly hung up in Vmware
Dave Cuthbert
dacut at neolinear.com
Thu Mar 4 15:56:19 PST 2004
Matthew Dillon wrote:
It seems unlikely. There should be no uses of cmpxchg if you build a UP
kernel to run under vmware.
Hm... this isn't emitted by the compiler under normal circumstances?
According to [1], this is a 486+ instruction. Then again, it could be
like, say, xlat (which I've never seen a compiler emit).
[1]
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~feeley/cours/ift2240/doc/assembly/cmpxchg.html
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