linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

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Date:	Sat, 7 Apr 2007 09:40:06 -0700
From:	"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...il.com>
To:	"Eric Dumazet" <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Cc:	"Jakub Jelinek" <jakub@...hat.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Dave Jones" <davej@...hat.com>,
	"Nick Piggin" <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>, "Andi Kleen" <ak@...e.de>,
	"Ravikiran G Thirumalai" <kiran@...lex86.org>,
	"Shai Fultheim (Shai@...lex86.org)" <shai@...lex86.org>,
	"pravin b shelar" <pravin.shelar@...softinc.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

On 4/7/07, Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com> wrote:
> I am not sure what you want to say.

What Jakub meant is that it is OK for the kernel to reject using
unaligned 64-bit futexes.  Just return an error in all cases (not just
in some).
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