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DateMon, 6 Aug 2007 09:20:12 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: [RESEND] [BUG] futex_unlock_pi() hurts my brain and may cause application deadlock
* john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hey Ingo,
> 	I sent this fix for this back in the 2.6.21-rt9 era, and I thought to
> picked it up, but I think it arrived amid some futex churn and
> apparently has been dropped or was just lost.
> 
> Some of our testers have been reporting futex deadlocks and this fix 
> resolves it, so I believe it to still be needed.

hmm ... so the many rounds of pi-futex fixes from Alexey and Thomas did 
not resolve that deadlock?

	Ingo
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