Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932307AbXARNI6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:08:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932460AbXARNI6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:08:58 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:45364 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932307AbXARNIp (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:08:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:07:25 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Pierre Peiffer Cc: Daniel Walker , tglx@linutronix.de, khilman@mvista.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] futex null pointer timeout Message-ID: <20070118130725.GA14782@elte.hu> References: <20070118002503.418478415@mvista.com> <20070118073816.GA28486@elte.hu> <45AF6790.8010000@bull.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <45AF6790.8010000@bull.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -3.8 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-3.8 required=5.9 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_20 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -3.3 ALL_TRUSTED Did not pass through any untrusted hosts -0.5 BAYES_20 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 5 to 20% [score: 0.0765] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 814 Lines: 26 * Pierre Peiffer wrote: > Ingo Molnar a ?crit : > >* Daniel Walker 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. thanks, applied. (FYI, your mailer added an extra space to every context line in the patch and thus corrupted it, i fixed it up by hand.) Ingo - 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/