On 10/25/2012 01:14 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012, Darren Hart wrote: >> On 10/23/2012 01:29 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Nah. I'm just too paranoid to apply any futex patch w/o understanding > the root cause of it. Darn, if I only could remember how that stale > waiters bit issue got inflicted .... Stale waiters happens in userspace for non-pi mutexes and there we make one extra FUTEX_WAKE syscall just in case. The futex value policy is much more rigid with PI obviously, so I wasn't aware this could happen there. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
