Re: [patch 1/1] schedule removal of FUTEX_FD

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Oct 31 2006 - 18:46:32 EST


Ar Maw, 2006-10-31 am 15:09 -0800, ysgrifennodd akpm@xxxxxxxx:
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Apparently FUTEX_FD is unfixably racy and nothing uses it (or if it does, it
> shouldn't).
>
> Add a warning printk, give any remaining users six months to migrate off it.

Andrew - please use time based rate limits for this sort of thing, that
way you actually get to see who is actually using it. Probably doesn't
matter for the FUTEX_FD case as nobody does, but in general the 'ten
times during boot' approach is not as good as ratelimit(): Perhaps
net_ratelimit() ought to become more general ?

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