Re: beta 1 failed on linux mipsel

Tom,

I have confirmed that 7.4.3 works on the cobalt raq mipsel system. I have not looked at the s_lock.[ch] code as I
have not coded in C for years and don't know the backend code very well. Do you have any ideas?

Jim

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From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jim(at)contactbda(dot)com
Cc: "pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 21:42:57 -0400
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] beta 1 failed on linux mipsel

> "Jim Buttafuoco" <jim(at)contactbda(dot)com> writes:
> > Shouldn't this also work on mipsel CPU's?
>
> It should work on a real MIPS CPU. The PlayStation 2 has a dumbed-down
> MIPS chip without the TAS instruction :-(, but now that we've eliminated
> that point I think you've found a problem. We made several
> reorganizations in the spinlock code between 7.4 and 8.0 that could
> possibly have broken the platforms we were not testing on --- can you
> take a look at the changes in s_lock.h and s_lock.c and see where we
> went wrong?
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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