Nios® II Processor Reference Guide

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Date 8/28/2023
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7.9.7.3. Atomic Operations

The Nios II architecture does not have atomic operations (such as load linked and store conditional). Atomic operations are emulated using a kernel system call via the trap instruction. The toolchain provides intrinsic functions which perform the system call. Applications must use those functions rather than the system call directly. Atomic operations may be added in a future processor extension.