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DateFri, 14 Oct 2005 07:35:16 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: Robust Futex update

* David Singleton <dsingleton@mvista.com> wrote:

> Ingo,
> here 's a patch for 2.6.14-rc4-rt1 that fixes two things:
>
> 1) Deregister futex returns -EBUSY instead of -EINVAL if a thread
> tries to deregister a pthread_mutex that another thread has locked.
>
> 2) Make the fast path robust. If a pthread_mutex is only locked in
> user space we need to clear the owner when the thread dies. This
> makes both the 'rt_mutex is locked in the kernel' and the
> 'pthread_mutex is only locked in user space' paths robust.

thanks, applied.

Ingo
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