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* Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote: > This fix is mostly from Thomas .. > > The problem was that a futex can be called with a zero timeout (0 > seconds, 0 nanoseconds) and it's a valid expired timeout. However, the > current futex in -rt assumes a zero timeout is an infinite timeout. > > Kevin Hilman found this using LTP's nptl01 test case which would soft > hang occasionally. > > The patch reworks do_futex, and futex_wait* so a NULL pointer in the > timeout position is infinite, and anything else is evaluated as a real > timeout. thanks, applied. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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