futex API docs?

futex API docs?

[Francesc Oller]

Hi all!

I've been trying to understand how futexes work looking at the last
dev. kernel. I've not found any docs. Are there any?

Basically:

P (fast P sem op):

  if (atomic_decrement(sem)<0)
    sys_futex(..,FUTEX_WAIT,....);

V (fast V sem op):

  if (atomic_increment(sem)<=0)
    sys_futex(..,FUTEX_WAKE,....);

Futexes need be counting semaphores since there could be WAKEs in
the middle of atomic_decrements and WAITs (not atomic) but I do
not see this in the code. I can't find the kernel counter in the
sources

Can anybody help me?

Many thanks in advance

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Cheers

Francesc