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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove bogus WARN_ON in futex_wait
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 21:07:18 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40AB3FE6.6040106@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040519125001.3866f830.ak@suse.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, 19 May 2004 13:43:40 +0300
> Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:23:50PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>>>futex_wait goes to an interruptible sleep, but does a WARN_ON later
>>>if it wakes up early. But waking up early is totally legal, since
>>>the sleep is interruptible and any signal can wake it up.
>>
>>That's not what the WARN_ON is saynig, unless I'm missing
>>something. It's checking if we were woken up early and there's no
>>signal pending for us. 
> 
> 
> True. Anyways, it seems to happen in practice.
> 

Somebody thought an early wakeup there was buggy (but harmless).
There was a patch for kernel/sched.c that was supposed to print
the source of the wakeup. I think the WARN_ON in the futex is
pretty uninteresting without the sched.c patch...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-19 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-19 10:23 [PATCH] Remove bogus WARN_ON in futex_wait Andi Kleen
2004-05-19 10:43 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-05-19 10:50   ` Andi Kleen
2004-05-19 10:54     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2004-05-19 11:07     ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-05-19 14:42     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-20  0:52     ` Rusty Russell
2004-05-20  8:41       ` Andi Kleen

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