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Date:   Tue, 5 Nov 2019 10:59:24 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To:     Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH] futex: extend set_robust_list to allow 2 locking
 ABIs at the same time.
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On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Shawn Landden:
> > If this new ABI is used, then bit 1 of the *next pointer of the
> > user-space robust_list indicates that the futex_offset2 value should
> > be used in place of the existing futex_offset.
> 
> The futex interface currently has some races which can only be fixed by
> API changes.  I'm concerned that we sacrifice the last bit for some
> rather obscure feature.  What if we need that bit for fixing the
> correctness issues?

That current approach is going nowhere and if we change the ABI ever then
this needs to happen with all *libc folks involved and agreeing.

Out of curiosity, what's the race issue vs. robust list which you are
trying to solve?

Thanks,

	tglx