linux-kernel - Re: futex question

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910051525560.2646@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:28:16 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Anirban Sinha <ani@...rban.org>
cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Darren Hart <dvhltc@...ibm.com>,
	Kaz Kylheku <kaz@...gmasystems.com>,
	Anirban Sinha <asinha@...gmasystems.com>
Subject: Re: futex question

Can you please fix your mail client to do proper line breaks at around
78 chars ?

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Anirban Sinha wrote:
>
> We need to clear those pointers regardless. After the exceve(), the
> address values are meaningless under the new mm context.

That's out of question. We just need to come to a decision whether we
silently clean up callers dumbness or not.

Thanks,

	tglx
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