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Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:29:40 -0800
From: Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC: "lkml," <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>,
Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@...ibm.com>,
John Stultz <johnstul@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [TIP][RFC 3/7] futex: futex_lock_pi_atomic()
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
Hi Peter,
Thanks for taking a look.
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 16:13 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
>> + * Returns:
>> + * - 0 on success (futex_q is setup and FUTEX_WAITERS bit is set on the futex)
>> + * - 1 on a successful atomic acquisition of the lock
>> + * - A negative error code on failure
>
> That utterly confused me for a while.
Sorry about that, guess my doc-fu needs some work.
>
> Maybe something like:
>
> 0 - ready to wait
> 1 - acquired the lock
>
> <0 - error
Sure thing, I've updated the patch and my git tree:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dvhart/linux-2.6-tip-hacks.git;a=shortlog;h=requeue-pi-dev
Note, this is a development branch and I continuously update it,
replacing patches, etc.
--
Darren Hart
IBM Linux Technology Center
Real-Time Linux Team
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