linux-kernel - Re: [rfc][patch] futex: restartable futex

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Date:	Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:38:35 +0100
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] futex: restartable futex_wait?

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 06:10 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > i think that's quite right. I'm wondering why this never came up before? 
> > But your fix is not complete i think:
> > 
> > > +             restart->arg2 = time;
> > > +             return -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;
> > > +     }
> > 
> > 'time' here is relative, so the restarted syscall will do a /full/ wait 
> > again.
> 
> But it has been modified by schedule_timeout?

But this does not change the syscall registers, so it is restarted in
the same way. We need a new futex OP for this, which takes absolute time
like the PI futex op does.

	tglx


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