Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261774AbTI3Vsp (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:48:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261775AbTI3Vsp (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:48:45 -0400 Received: from cpe-24-221-190-179.ca.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.190.179]:38814 "EHLO myware.akkadia.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261774AbTI3Vsn (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:48:43 -0400 Message-ID: <3F79FA20.4010706@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:48:16 -0700 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20030924 Thunderbird/0.4a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hugh Dickins CC: Jamie Lokier , linux mailing-list , "Hu, Boris" , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test6 oops futex" References: In-Reply-To: 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 Hugh Dickins wrote: > (Oh, while you're there, be nice to fix nr_requeue 0.) Not necessary. FUTEX_REQUEUE with nr_requeue == 0 is the same as FUTEX_WAKE. When we wrote the code we decided that it is better to optimize the requeue as much as possible and leave worrying about invalid parameters to the user. Not that the code will not cause any crashes or so. -- --------------. ,-. 444 Castro Street Ulrich Drepper \ ,-----------------' \ Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `--------------------------- - 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/