Message-ID: <1424309300.18191.2.camel@stgolabs.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] futex: Robustify wake_futex()
From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, dvhart@linux.intel.com,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:28:20 -0800
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On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 18:07 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> while the WARN() already told the user that the kernel is 
> broken.
> 
> So what's the point? Does it avoid any real badness, state 
> corruption, crash, hang, etc.?

Right, I mentioned the warn (redundant pi checks) being completely
redundant - thus this is not a real issue... feel free to toss, this was
just a wtf when reading the code ;)

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