2022-04-22 17:32:38

by Thomas Gleixner

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Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] futex: exit: Print a warning when futex_cleanup fails

On Fri, Apr 22 2022 at 10:23, Nico Pache wrote:
> On 4/21/22 16:53, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 21 2022 at 15:05, Nico Pache wrote:
>> Robust futexes are best effort as I explained you before and spamming
>> dmesg won't help anything.
> It would have helped find the OOM/Robust Futex issue more quickly. It may also
> help detect breakages in the pthread code (or any other users of robust futex)
> if someone is doing something incorrectly.

If we follow that line of argumentation then we have to sprinkle printks
en masse all over the place as there are a gazillion ways to create hard
to debug issues.

Thanks,

tglx