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From: byrd@portia.Stanford.EDU (Greg Byrd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: atomic instructions on R2000
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Date: 2 Oct 89 22:33:48 GMT
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This may be a naive question, but...

In Kane's MIPS R2000 book, I can't find any reference to 
atomic instructions, like swap or test-and-set.  Are there
really none, or am I missing something?  If not, how do
MIPS-based multiprocessors implement locks?