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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	mingo@elte.hu, seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com, ahu@ds9a.nl
Subject: Re: Futex queue_me/get_user ordering (was: 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 [u])
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 01:09:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041114010943.3d56985a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041114090023.GA478@mail.shareable.org>

Emergency Services Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org> wrote:
>
> Revert the patch which moves queue_me(); it's buggy.  It is a bug to
>  move queue_me() after get_user().

yup.

>  It fully explains the blocking threads in Apache and Evolution.
> 
>  Even if it worked, the patch wouldn't have saved any time, as it's a
>  rare condition if the caller is using futex properly.

The patch wasn't supposed to optimise anything.  It fixed a bug which was
causing hangs.  See
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc1/2.6.10-rc1-mm5/broken-out/futex_wait-fix.patch

Or are you saying that userspace is buggy??

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-14  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20041113164048.2f31a8dd.akpm@osdl.org>
2004-11-14  9:00 ` Futex queue_me/get_user ordering (was: 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 [u]) Emergency Services Jamie Lokier
2004-11-14  9:09   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-11-14  9:23     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-11-14  9:50       ` bert hubert
2004-11-15 14:12         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-11-16  8:30           ` Futex queue_me/get_user ordering Hidetoshi Seto
2004-11-16 14:58             ` Jamie Lokier
2004-11-18  1:29               ` Hidetoshi Seto
2004-11-15  0:58       ` Hidetoshi Seto
2004-11-15  2:01         ` Jamie Lokier
2004-11-15  3:06           ` Hidetoshi Seto
2004-11-15 13:22             ` Jamie Lokier
2004-11-17  8:47               ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-11-18  2:10                 ` Hidetoshi Seto
2004-11-18  7:20                 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-11-18 19:47                   ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-03-17 10:26                     ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-03-17 15:20                       ` Jamie Lokier
2005-03-17 15:55                         ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-03-18 17:00                           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-03-21  2:55                             ` Jamie Lokier
2005-03-18 16:53                         ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-11-26 17:06                 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-11-28 17:36                   ` Joe Seigh
2004-11-29 11:24                   ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-11-29 21:50                     ` Jamie Lokier
2004-11-15  4:24 Futex queue_me/get_user ordering (was: 2.6.10-rc1-mm5 [u]) Chuck Ebbert
2004-11-15  8:08 ` Jamie Lokier

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