Re: [PATCH 4.4 164/190] futex: Remove requirement for lock_page() in get_futex_key()

[Ben Hutchings]

On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 15:38 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-04-11 at 20:36 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 4.4-stable review patch.ÂÂIf anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > commit 65d8fc777f6dcfee12785c057a6b57f679641c90 upstream.
> 
> [...]
> 
> This causes regressions, fixed upstream by:
> 
> commit 077fa7aed17de5022e44bf07dbaf732078b7b5b2
> Author: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> Date:ÂÂÂWed Jun 8 14:25:22 2016 +0100
> 
> ÂÂÂÂfutex: Calculate the futex key based on a tail page for file-based futexes

Actually I think this backport to 4.4 incorporated the fix above, but
the one below still looks applicable.

Ben.

> commit 48fb6f4db940e92cfb16cd878cddd59ea6120d06
> Author: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
> Date:ÂÂÂWed Aug 9 08:27:11 2017 +0100
> 
> ÂÂÂÂfutex: Remove unnecessary warning from get_futex_key
> 
> Ben.
> 
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Ben Hutchings
Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.