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| H A D | translate.c | 253ce7b2 Thu Apr 27 00:18:19 CDT 2017 Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> target/ppc: Emulate LL/SC using cmpxchg helpers
Emulating LL/SC with cmpxchg is not correct, since it can suffer from
the ABA problem. However, portable parallel code is written assuming
only cmpxchg which means that in practice this is a viable alternative.
Signed-off-by: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
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