Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261709AbVBXAMz (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:12:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261723AbVBXAJa (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:09:30 -0500 Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:1705 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261709AbVBXAAx (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Feb 2005 19:00:53 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 00:00:37 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier To: Olof Johansson Cc: Linus Torvalds , Joe Korty , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Futex mmap_sem deadlock Message-ID: <20050224000037.GC11473@mail.shareable.org> References: <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> <20050223184946.GA11473@mail.shareable.org> <20050223191254.GA5608@austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050223191254.GA5608@austin.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 608 Lines: 14 Olof Johansson wrote: > How's this? I went with get_val_no_fault(), since it isn't really a > get_user.*() any more (ptr being passed in), and no_paging is a little > misleading (not all faults are due to paging). How ironic: I deliberately didn't choose "no_fault" because that function *does* take page faults. It only disables paging operations! :) -- Jamie - 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/