linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RESEND 2] Take over futex of dead task only if FUTEX

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Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:18:36 +0530
From:	Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh.poyarekar@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RESEND 2] Take over futex of dead task only if
 FUTEX_WAITERS is not set

> Now there is a different solution to that problem. Do not look at the
> user space value at all and enforce a lookup of possibly available
> pi_state. If pi_state can be found, then the new incoming locker T3
> blocks on that pi_state and legitimately races with T2 to acquire the
> rt_mutex and the pi_state and therefor the proper ownership of the
> user space futex.

That works. Thanks for the detailed explanation too.


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