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From: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] futex: Fix ZERO_PAGE cause infinite loop
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:04:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B437F4A.6030808@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091225083305.AA78.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> I don't know any library except glibc use futex directly, or not. 
> but we don't have any reason to assume futex is used only glibc.
> (plus, glibc might change its implementation in future release, perhaps)

I only know of 3 off-hand. The checkpoint restart guys have test suites 
that use the futex syscalls. The futextest test suite obviously does. 
There is also the userspace RCU library that Mathieu Desnoyers has been 
workingon. None of these make use off the zero page as far as I know. 
However, once we sort this out, I shall have to add such a test to 
futextest, perhaps something similar to the test in this thread.

-- 
Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-05 18:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-24  9:29 [PATCH] futex: Fix ZERO_PAGE cause infinite loop KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-12-24  9:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-12-24 17:15   ` Ulrich Drepper
2009-12-25  1:51   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-12-30 16:03     ` Hugh Dickins
2010-01-05  7:32       ` [PATCH v2] futex: remove rw parameter from get_futex_key() KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-05 11:21         ` Hugh Dickins
2010-01-05 20:41           ` Darren Hart
2010-01-06  2:27             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-06 23:14               ` Darren Hart
2010-01-06 23:29         ` Darren Hart
2010-01-13 10:30         ` [tip:core/urgent] futexes: Remove " tip-bot for KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-07  6:32       ` [PATCH] mips,mm: Reinstate move_pte optimization KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-01-11 10:15         ` Ralf Baechle
2010-01-05 18:04     ` Darren Hart [this message]

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