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SubjectRe: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes
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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Pierre Peiffer
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