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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove bogus WARN_ON in futex_wait
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:52:46 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085013927.7624.5.camel@bach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040519125001.3866f830.ak@suse.de>

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 20:50, 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.

Which we've been trying to figure out.  We return -EINTR in this case
even though it's a lie.  Don't know if it breaks anything, but I
*really* want to know who the buggy waker is before pronouncing it
harmless.

Rusty.
-- 
Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell


  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-20  0:53 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
2004-05-19 14:42     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-20  0:52     ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-05-20  8:41       ` Andi Kleen

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