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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>,
	tglx@linutronix.de, khilman@mvista.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] futex null pointer timeout
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:07:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070118130725.GA14782@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45AF6790.8010000@bull.net>


* Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar a écrit :
> >* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:
> >
> [...]
> >>The patch reworks do_futex, and futex_wait* so a NULL pointer in the 
> >>timeout position is infinite, and anything else is evaluated as a real 
> >>timeout.
> >
> >thanks, applied.
> >
> 
> On top of this patch, you will need the following patch: futex_lock_pi 
> is also involved.

thanks, applied. (FYI, your mailer added an extra space to every context 
line in the patch and thus corrupted it, i fixed it up by hand.)

	Ingo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-18 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-18  0:25 [PATCH] futex null pointer timeout Daniel Walker
2007-01-18  6:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-01-18  7:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-01-18 12:26   ` Pierre Peiffer
2007-01-18 12:44     ` Daniel Walker
2007-01-18 13:07     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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