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DateWed, 19 May 2004 12:50:01 +0200
FromAndi Kleen <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] Remove bogus WARN_ON in futex_wait
On Wed, 19 May 2004 13:43:40 +0300
Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:23:50PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > futex_wait goes to an interruptible sleep, but does a WARN_ON later
> > if it wakes up early. But waking up early is totally legal, since
> > the sleep is interruptible and any signal can wake it up.
> 
> That's not what the WARN_ON is saynig, unless I'm missing
> something. It's checking if we were woken up early and there's no
> signal pending for us. 

True. Anyways, it seems to happen in practice.

-Andi
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