Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262266AbVCVFUX (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:20:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262354AbVCVFQa (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:16:30 -0500 Received: from mustang.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.3]:57321 "HELO mustang.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262364AbVCVFP4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:15:56 -0500 Subject: Re: kernel bug: futex_wait hang From: Lee Revell To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, Chris Morgan , paul@linuxaudiosystems.com, Hidetoshi Seto In-Reply-To: <20050322044838.GB32432@mail.shareable.org> References: <1111463950.3058.20.camel@mindpipe> <20050321202051.2796660e.akpm@osdl.org> <20050322044838.GB32432@mail.shareable.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:15:49 -0500 Message-Id: <1111468549.3058.36.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 750 Lines: 17 On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 04:48 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > I argued for fixing Glibc on the grounds that the changed kernel > behaviour, or more exactly having Glibc depend on it, loses a certain > semantic property useful for unusual operations on multiple futexes at > the same time. But I appear to have lost the argument, and Jakub's > latest patch does clean up some cruft quite nicely, with no expected > performance hit. A glibc fix will take forever to get to users compared to a kernel fix. Lee - 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/