Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263277AbTEOAjW (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 20:39:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263279AbTEOAjW (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 20:39:22 -0400 Received: from 12-234-34-139.client.attbi.com ([12.234.34.139]:60405 "EHLO heavens.murgatroid.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263277AbTEOAjU (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 20:39:20 -0400 From: "Christopher Hoover" To: "'Andrew Morton'" , "'Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky'" Cc: , , Subject: RE: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 17:52:00 -0700 Organization: Murgatroid.Com Message-ID: <001c01c31a7c$327cc350$175e040f@bergamot> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: <20030514174158.47c2a3b5.akpm@digeo.com> Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 656 Lines: 20 > "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" wrote: > > > > How does this affect mm_release() in fork.c? there is a > call to sys_futex(); > > if you make it conditional, will it break anything in there? > > Via linker magic, mm_release() will simply call > sys_ni_syscall() instead. > > (I ran a futex-free ppc64 kernel. It worked.) Yep. I'm run an ARM kernel as well. Works fine. -ch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/