Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:30:17 +0200 | From | Pierre Peiffer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes |
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Nick Piggin a écrit : > > But... that isn't there in mainline. Why is it in -mm?
This was introduced by lguest code.... I did not follow exaclty why.
Pierre
> At any rate, that > makes > it a no brainer to change. > >> >> As this external thing certainly is not doing the check itself, to be >> on the safe side we should enforce it in get_futex_key(). I agree with >> you : If we want to maximize performance, we could say : The check >> *must* be done by the caller. > > Well we _control_ the API, so let's make it as clean and performant as > possible > from the start. >
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