Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:28:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Anirban Sinha <ani@anirban.org>
cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>,
       Kaz Kylheku <kaz@zeugmasystems.com>,
       Anirban Sinha <asinha@zeugmasystems.com>
Subject: Re: futex question
In-Reply-To: <4AC9F06B.8020708@anirban.org>
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Can you please fix your mail client to do proper line breaks at around
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On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Anirban Sinha wrote:
>
> We need to clear those pointers regardless. After the exceve(), the
> address values are meaningless under the new mm context.

That's out of question. We just need to come to a decision whether we
silently clean up callers dumbness or not.

Thanks,

	tglx
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