From: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Futex non-page-pinning fix
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:02:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030826090248.GB16407@actcom.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030826012529.7be1955f.akpm@osdl.org>
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 01:25:29AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> wrote:
> > How about combining something that's shared to all of the threads that
> > share a futex but not system wide (the mm?) with something simple that
> > won't change, like the page offset?
>
> The mm's could well be independent.
I assumed all threads sharing a futex share an mm since you suggested
hashing on mm + vaddr?
> Some userspace help would be needed to avoid defeating the hash. In the
> case where a bunch of threads with a shared mm are waiting on the same
> futex things should automatically be OK.
Userspace help would be fine, but relying only on userspace could lead
to an immediate DoS by forcing the hash to always hash to the same
bucket.
--
Muli Ben-Yehuda
http://www.mulix.org
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Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-26 3:12 [PATCH 2/2] Futex non-page-pinning fix Rusty Russell
2003-08-26 4:06 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26 5:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-08-26 5:50 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26 5:58 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-08-26 6:14 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26 6:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-08-26 7:02 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26 7:56 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-08-26 8:08 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-08-26 8:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-08-26 8:25 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26 9:02 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda [this message]
2003-08-26 10:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-26 10:44 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26 10:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-26 17:29 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26 19:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 5:17 ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-27 6:20 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-28 0:47 ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-28 8:21 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-29 3:46 ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-29 4:17 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-30 7:49 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-01 0:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-01 4:11 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-01 20:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-02 3:12 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-02 6:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-02 16:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-02 19:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-02 20:15 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-02 21:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03 2:40 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-03 7:36 ` [PATCH] Alternate futex non-page-pinning and COW fix Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03 11:19 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-03 14:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03 17:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03 17:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-03 18:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-03 18:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-03 18:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-03 19:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-03 19:40 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-03 20:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 2:43 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-04 8:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 12:20 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-04 15:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 16:55 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-04 18:38 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 20:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 21:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 22:10 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 17:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 17:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 18:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-05 3:55 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-05 17:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 17:26 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 1:30 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-04 21:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-05 5:19 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-05 20:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-07 6:45 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-07 13:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 1:49 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-08 9:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03 14:40 ` [PATCH 2] Little fixes to previous futex patch Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 16:45 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-04 17:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 18:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-04 20:11 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 21:36 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-04 21:58 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-07 7:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-09-07 12:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-07 15:03 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 1:56 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-07 13:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 3:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-09-08 9:33 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08 9:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-09-05 4:56 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-03 15:34 ` [PATCH] Alternate futex non-page-pinning and COW fix Andrew Morton
2003-09-03 17:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 1:35 ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-04 17:35 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03 0:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] Futex non-page-pinning fix Rusty Russell
2003-09-03 1:16 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-03 1:54 ` Dave Hansen
2003-09-03 2:54 ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-02 3:23 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-02 23:58 ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-27 8:37 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-08-27 8:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 10:38 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-27 10:57 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-08-28 8:03 ` Rusty Russell
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