Re: 2.6.0-test6 oops futex"

[Ulrich Drepper]

Hugh Dickins wrote:

> (Oh, while you're there, be nice to fix nr_requeue 0.)

Not necessary.  FUTEX_REQUEUE with nr_requeue == 0 is the same as
FUTEX_WAKE.  When we wrote the code we decided that it is better to
optimize the requeue as much as possible and leave worrying about
invalid parameters to the user.  Not that the code will not cause any
crashes or so.

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