Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 18:35:11 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Alternate futex non-page-pinning and COW fix
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References: <20030903073628.GA19920@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030904014229.404F12C0CB@lists.samba.org>
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> I think this is a bit extreme: this would allow futexes in the
> VSYSCALL region, right?  I admire your thoroughness, but perhaps this
> should wait until someone comes up with a reason to do it?

I only put that in because map_user_pages does it.  It isn't important.

If you look carefully, you see that these patches work exactly like
the old implementation in all cases where the old one worked.

-- Jamie
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