lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2004]   [Nov]   [14]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: Futex queue_me/get_user ordering
Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>>The patch wasn't supposed to optimise anything. It fixed a bug which was
>>causing hangs. See
>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc1/2.6.10-rc1-mm5/broken-out/futex_wait-fix.patch
>>
>>Or are you saying that userspace is buggy??
>
>
> I haven't looked at the NPTL code, but that URL's pseudo-code is buggy.
> The call to FUTEX_WAKE should be doing wake++ conditionally on the
> return value, not unconditionally.
(snip)
>
> So I don't know if NPTL is buggy, but the pseudo-code given in the bug
> report is (because of unconditional wake++), and so is the failure
> example (because it doesn't use a mutex).
>
> -- Jamie

from glibc-2.3.3(RHEL4b2):

31 int
32 __pthread_cond_signal (cond)
33 pthread_cond_t *cond;
34 {
35 /* Make sure we are alone. */
36 lll_mutex_lock (cond->__data.__lock);
37
38 /* Are there any waiters to be woken? */
39 if (cond->__data.__total_seq > cond->__data.__wakeup_seq)
40 {
41 /* Yes. Mark one of them as woken. */
42 ++cond->__data.__wakeup_seq;
43 ++cond->__data.__futex;
44
45 /* Wake one. */
46 lll_futex_wake (&cond->__data.__futex, 1);
47 }
48
49 /* We are done. */
50 lll_mutex_unlock (cond->__data.__lock);
51
52 return 0;
53 }

Ingo, is this buggy?

We should start again with a question:
Is this a kernel's bug or NPTL's bug?


Thanks,
H.Seto

-
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/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 14:08    [W:1.211 / U:1.176 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site