Re: [patch 2/3] futex_compat: simplify pointer magic

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Sep 10 2007 - 15:36:12 EST



* arnd@xxxxxxxx <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The futex_compat code currently mixes pointers to robust_list and
> compat_robust_list for no apparent reason other than requiring extra
> typecasts. It also uses an extra argument to fetch_robust_entry() that
> is not useful but has caused bugs to be introduced before.
>
> Clean up the code to get rid of all this and make the compat version
> look more like the native one.

yeah.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Ingo
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