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From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:29:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ARM: futex: make futex_detect_cmpxchg more reliable
To:     Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
        Mikael Pettersson <mikpelinux@gmail.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:36 PM Ard Biesheuvel
<ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 15:34, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 12:56 PM Ard Biesheuvel
> > <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 11:58, Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Mar 08, 2019 at 11:45:21AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> >
> > My first attempt (before finding the original patch from Mikael Pettersson)
> > was to change the probe to pass '1' as the value instead of '0', that
> > worked fine.
> >
>
> Which probe is that?

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index c3b73b0311bc..19615ad3c4f7 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -3864,7 +3864,7 @@ static void __init futex_detect_cmpxchg(void)
         * implementation, the non-functional ones will return
         * -ENOSYS.
         */
-       if (cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(&curval, NULL, 0, 0) == -EFAULT)
+       if (cmpxchg_futex_value_locked(&curval, NULL, 1, 1) == -EFAULT)
                futex_cmpxchg_enabled = 1;
 #endif
 }

      Arnd