Re: [TIP][RFC 3/7] futex: futex_lock_pi_atomic()

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 16:13 -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
> + * Returns:
> + * - 0 on success (futex_q is setup and FUTEX_WAITERS bit is set on the futex)
> + * - 1 on a successful atomic acquisition of the lock
> + * - A negative error code on failure

That utterly confused me for a while.

Maybe something like:

 0 - ready to wait
 1 - acquired the lock
 
 <0 - error

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