Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261528AbVBWSd4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:33:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261529AbVBWSd4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:33:56 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:3555 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261528AbVBWSdy (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 13:33:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 10:34:27 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jamie Lokier cc: Olof Johansson , Joe Korty , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock In-Reply-To: <20050223182203.GA10931@mail.shareable.org> Message-ID: References: <20050222190646.GA7079@austin.ibm.com> <20050222115503.729cd17b.akpm@osdl.org> <20050222210752.GG22555@mail.shareable.org> <20050223144940.GA880@tsunami.ccur.com> <20050223171015.GD10256@austin.ibm.com> <20050223182203.GA10931@mail.shareable.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 462 Lines: 15 On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > I suggest putting it into futex.c, and make it an inline function > which takes "u32 __user *". Agreed, except we've traditionally just made it "int __user *". Linus - 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/