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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:40:29 +1000 From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> CC: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@...l.net>, Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>, 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, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> Subject: Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes Nick Piggin wrote: > Pierre Peiffer wrote: > >> Nick Piggin a écrit : >> >>> >>> But... that isn't there in mainline. Why is it in -mm? >> >> >> >> This was introduced by lguest code.... >> I did not follow exaclty why. > > > OK, that's no problem, then it can remain exported but we just > have to document and audit that callers must pass in an aligned > address. We can also BUG_ON(address & ~PAGE_MASK); to handle > the security aspect. Err, duh no we can't because we don't know the size, which is the whole point :P Anyway.... just ensure callers have to fix alignment. -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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