Re: [PATCH] futex: Calculate the futex key based on a tail page for file-based futexes

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Jun 08 2016 - 04:42:25 EST


On Wed, 2016-06-08 at 09:04 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 07:52:59PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 19:50 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01:30:17PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> > > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Wants a stable tag so it gets auto-snarfed by Greg?
>
> Can I assume it passed tests for you?

While I didn't test this specific patch, modulo 'tail' vs 'pinned',
it's identical to the three liner I tested to confirm that the
get/put_page() bits I added were in indeed superfluous.. so yeah, it
definitely squashes buglet.

-Mike