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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	linux mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Hu, Boris" <boris.hu@intel.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test6 oops futex"
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:48:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F79FA20.4010706@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309302141220.4388-100000@localhost.localdomain>

Hugh Dickins wrote:

> (Oh, while you're there, be nice to fix nr_requeue 0.)

Not necessary.  FUTEX_REQUEUE with nr_requeue == 0 is the same as
FUTEX_WAKE.  When we wrote the code we decided that it is better to
optimize the requeue as much as possible and leave worrying about
invalid parameters to the user.  Not that the code will not cause any
crashes or so.

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-30 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-29  9:23 2.6.0-test6 oops futex" Klaus Dittrich
2003-09-30  8:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-30 20:53   ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-30 21:48     ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2003-09-30 23:44     ` Rusty Russell
2003-10-01  6:35       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01  1:01     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-10-01  2:41       ` Jamie Lokier

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