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

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Date:	Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:10:53 +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 13:24 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > > '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.
> 
> Forgive me if I'm missing something here, but I'm using the restart block
> and saving the updated value of time in ->arg2, and using that as the new
> time parameter passed into futex_wait from futex_wait_restart.

Oops. I went into confusion mode. You are right, the restart block keeps
that.

	tglx


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