Re: [patch V2 3/7] futex: Add op for hash preallocation

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 08:44:05PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> +static int futex_preallocate_hash(unsigned int slots)
> +{
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FUTEX_PRIVATE_HASH
> +	struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
> +	struct futex_hash_bucket *hb;
> +	unsigned int bits;
> +
> +	/* Try to allocate the requested nr of slots */
> +	bits = order_base_2(slots);
> +
> +	if (bits < FUTEX_MIN_HASH_BITS)
> +		bits = FUTEX_MIN_HASH_BITS;
> +
> +	if (bits > futex_max_hash_bits)
> +		bits = futex_max_hash_bits;
> +
> +	futex_populate_hash(bits);

Should we not simply fail if the provided number of slots is not a power
of 2 ?