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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@in.ibm.com>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [BUG] futex_unlock_pi() hurts my brain and may cause application deadlock
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:20:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070806072012.GF5359@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185926019.8850.198.camel@localhost>


* john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hey Ingo,
> 	I sent this fix for this back in the 2.6.21-rt9 era, and I thought to
> picked it up, but I think it arrived amid some futex churn and
> apparently has been dropped or was just lost.
> 
> Some of our testers have been reporting futex deadlocks and this fix 
> resolves it, so I believe it to still be needed.

hmm ... so the many rounds of pi-futex fixes from Alexey and Thomas did 
not resolve that deadlock?

	Ingo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-31  0:49 [BUG] futex_unlock_pi() hurts my brain and may cause application deadlock john stultz
2007-05-31  1:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-05-31 14:53   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-31  2:52 ` [PATCH RT] fix faulting bomb in futex_unlock_pi64 Steven Rostedt
2007-05-31  3:18   ` Steven Rostedt
2007-05-31 17:20   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-31 14:24 ` [BUG] futex_unlock_pi() hurts my brain and may cause application deadlock Ingo Molnar
2007-05-31 14:50   ` john stultz
2007-05-31 14:55     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-05-31 16:48       ` john stultz
2007-07-31 23:53 ` [RESEND] " john stultz
2007-08-01  0:00   ` Steven Rostedt
2007-08-01  1:41   ` David Miller
2007-08-06  7:20   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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