Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/5] lightweight robust futexes: -V1 | Date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:02:11 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 15 February 2006 20:49, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> The goal is for the kernel to unlock the mutex, but the next task to > aquire it gets some special notification that the status is unknown. At > that point the task can either validate/clean up the data and reset the > mutex to clean (if it can) or it can give up the mutex and pass it on to > some other task that does know how to validate/clean up.
The "send signal when any mapper dies" proposal would do that. The other process could catch the signal and do something with it.
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