Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263457AbTIHTUZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:20:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263553AbTIHTUZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:20:25 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:55481 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263457AbTIHTUX (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:20:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:02:34 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Rusty Russell Cc: hugh@veritas.com, drepper@redhat.com, lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk, shemminger@osdl.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: today's futex changes Message-Id: <20030908120234.5d05cda9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20030908102309.0AC4E2C013@lists.samba.org> References: <20030908102309.0AC4E2C013@lists.samba.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 543 Lines: 13 Rusty Russell wrote: > > D: 4) Andrew Morton says spurious wakeup is a bug. Catch it. Yes, but going BUG() is a bit rude. We can detect the error, we can recover from it and it doesn't cause any user data corruption or anything. A rude printk is all that is needed here. - 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/