linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/3] futex_compat: simplify pointer magic

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Message-ID: <20070910193516.GB4964@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:35:16 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] futex_compat: simplify pointer magic


* arnd@...db.de <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

> The futex_compat code currently mixes pointers to robust_list and 
> compat_robust_list for no apparent reason other than requiring extra 
> typecasts. It also uses an extra argument to fetch_robust_entry() that 
> is not useful but has caused bugs to be introduced before.
> 
> Clean up the code to get rid of all this and make the compat version 
> look more like the native one.

yeah.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

	Ingo
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