linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 2/3] futex: exit: Print a warning when futex

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Date:   Fri, 22 Apr 2022 16:42:52 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Nico Pache <npache@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        André Almeida 
        <andrealmeid@...labora.com>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 2/3] futex: exit: Print a warning when futex_cleanup fails

On Fri, Apr 22 2022 at 10:23, Nico Pache wrote:
> On 4/21/22 16:53, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 21 2022 at 15:05, Nico Pache wrote:
>> Robust futexes are best effort as I explained you before and spamming
>> dmesg won't help anything.
> It would have helped find the OOM/Robust Futex issue more quickly. It may also
> help detect breakages in the pthread code (or any other users of robust futex)
> if someone is doing something incorrectly.

If we follow that line of argumentation then we have to sprinkle printks
en masse all over the place as there are a gazillion ways to create hard
to debug issues.

Thanks,

        tglx