Subject: Re: [PATCH] futex null pointer timeout
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
To: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, tglx@linutronix.de, khilman@mvista.com,
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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 04:44:26 -0800
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On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:26 +0100, Pierre Peiffer wrote:
> Ingo Molnar a écrit :
> > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote:
> > 
> [...]
> >> The patch reworks do_futex, and futex_wait* so a NULL pointer in the 
> >> timeout position is infinite, and anything else is evaluated as a real 
> >> timeout.
> > 
> > thanks, applied.
> > 
> 
> On top of this patch, you will need the following patch: futex_lock_pi is also 
> involved.
> 

True.

Daniel

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