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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	David Singleton <dsingleton@mvista.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] lightweight robust futexes: -V1
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:02:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200602152102.12795.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F385C1.9020508@nortel.com>

On Wednesday 15 February 2006 20:49, Christopher Friesen wrote:

> The goal is for the kernel to unlock the mutex, but the next task to 
> aquire it gets some special notification that the status is unknown.  At 
> that point the task can either validate/clean up the data and reset the 
> mutex to clean (if it can) or it can give up the mutex and pass it on to 
> some other task that does know how to validate/clean up.

The "send signal when any mapper dies" proposal would do that. The other process
could catch the signal and do something with it.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-15 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-15 15:17 [patch 0/5] lightweight robust futexes: -V1 Ingo Molnar
2006-02-15 15:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-15 17:35 ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-15 17:50   ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-02-15 18:42     ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-15 19:49       ` Christopher Friesen
2006-02-15 20:02         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-02-15 20:13           ` Antonio Vargas
2006-02-15 20:25             ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-15 20:59           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-15 20:43       ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-15 19:05 ` Daniel Walker
2006-02-15 19:11   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-15 19:13     ` Daniel Walker
2006-02-15 21:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-16 15:43     ` Daniel Walker
2006-02-15 21:45 ` Andrew Morton
2006-02-15 22:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-17 21:59     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-16  3:57 ` Darren Hart
2006-02-16 14:58 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-02-16 17:20   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-02-16 19:04     ` Daniel Walker
2006-02-17  9:09       ` Avi Kivity
2006-02-17 19:55     ` Johannes Stezenbach
2006-02-17 20:02       ` Arjan van de Ven

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