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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2006-03-27 01:16:27 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-27 08:44:49 -0800
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[PATCH] lightweight robust futexes updates
- fix: initialize the robust list(s) to NULL in copy_process. - doc update - cleanup: rename _inuser to _inatomic - __user cleanups and other small cleanups Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/robust-futexes.txt2
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt b/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt
index def5d87..8529a17 100644
--- a/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt
+++ b/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt
@@ -142,8 +142,6 @@ On insertion:
of the 'lock word', to the linked list starting at 'head', and
4) clear the 'list_op_pending' word.
- XXX I am particularly unsure of the following -pj XXX
-
On removal:
1) set the 'list_op_pending' word to the address of the 'lock word'
to be removed,
diff --git a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt
index 7aecc67..df82d75 100644
--- a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt
@@ -213,6 +213,6 @@ robust-mutex testcases.
All other architectures should build just fine too - but they wont have
the new syscalls yet.
-Architectures need to implement the new futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inuser()
+Architectures need to implement the new futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
inline function before writing up the syscalls (that function returns
-ENOSYS right now).