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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: PI mutex support on ARM
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* Remy Bohmer <l.pinguin@gmail.com> wrote:

> --- linux-2.6.21.orig/include/asm/futex.h	2007-04-26 05:08:32.000000000 +0200

patch format problem: never diff the asm/ files, diff the asm-arm/ 
files.

> +	local_irq_save(flags);
> +
> +	err = get_user(uval, uaddr);

is it safe to do a get_user() with irqs off?

> +	if (err)
> +	{
> +		local_irq_restore(flags);
> +		 return -EFAULT;
> +	}

(style problems. Use scripts/checkpatch.pl to verify your patches.)

> +	local_irq_restore(flags);

is this method of atomic ops SMP-safe?

	Ingo