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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: today's futex changes
    On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 17:28:44 +0100 (BST)
    Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:

    > On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
    > > ... broke NPTL. Tests which worked with previous kernels fail now. One
    > > test eventually succeeded, but the process somehow got stuck for about
    > > 30-40 seconds. Then it finished. Running strace showed a call to
    > > clone() as the last operation but there were other threads running at
    > > that time.
    > >....
    > > What I can offer are statically linked versions of the tests.
    > > One is here: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/tst-cond2.bz2
    >
    > Very helpful, thank you: it showed two bugs, one new and one old.
    > Does the patch below work for you, Ulrich?
    >
    > The new bug is that "offset" has been declared as an alternative in
    > the union, instead of as an element in the structures comprising it,
    > effectively eliminating it from the key: keys match which should not.
    >
    > The old bug is that if futex_requeue were called with identical
    > key1 and key2 (sensible? tended to happen given the first bug),
    > it was liable to loop for a long time holding futex_lock: guard
    > against that, still respecting the semantics of futex_requeue.
    >
    > While here, please let's also fix the get_futex_key VM_NONLINEAR
    > case, which was returning the 1 from get_user_pages, taken as an
    > error by its callers. And save a few bytes and improve debuggability
    > by uninlining the top-level futex_wake, futex_requeue, futex_wait.
    >
    > Hugh

    Everything is working fine for me now.
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