Re: [rfc][patch] futex: restartable futex_wait?

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Mar 09 2007 - 08:11:40 EST


On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 13:24 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > > 'time' here is relative, so the restarted syscall will do a /full/ wait
> > > > again.
> > >
> > > But it has been modified by schedule_timeout?
> >
> > But this does not change the syscall registers, so it is restarted in
> > the same way. We need a new futex OP for this, which takes absolute time
> > like the PI futex op does.
>
> Forgive me if I'm missing something here, but I'm using the restart block
> and saving the updated value of time in ->arg2, and using that as the new
> time parameter passed into futex_wait from futex_wait_restart.

Oops. I went into confusion mode. You are right, the restart block keeps
that.

tglx


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