Fix spinlock assembly code for MIPS so it works on MIPS r6.
Original MIPS-I processors didn't have the LL/SC instructions (nor any other userland synchronization primitive). If the build toolchain targets that ISA variant by default, as an astonishingly large fraction of MIPS platforms still do, the assembler won't take LL/SC without coercion in the form of a ".set mips2" instruction. But we issued that unconditionally, making it an ISA downgrade for chips later than MIPS2. That breaks things for the latest MIPS r6 ISA, which encodes these instructions differently. Adjust the code so we don't change ISA level if it's >= 2. Note that this patch doesn't change what happens on an actual MIPS-I processor: either the kernel will emulate these instructions transparently, or you'll get a SIGILL failure. That tradeoff seemed fine in 2002 when this code was added (cf 3cbe6b24), and it's even more so today when MIPS-I is basically extinct. But let's add a comment about that. YunQiang Su (with cosmetic adjustments by me). Back-patch to all supported branches. Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15844-8f62fe7e163939b3@postgresql.org
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