Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Feb 2006 12:50:54 -0800 | From | Paul Jackson <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/6] lightweight robust futexes: -V3 |
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> > [ ... nice writeup of the robust-futex ABI ... ] > > can i put this into Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt?
Good idea - so be it.
Could you review it for accuracy -- I'm sure I screwed it up in some details, large or small.
Ulrich -- if you're reading this -- your review comments would be most welcome as well.
In particular: 1) See the description of the removal protocol, below the XXX comment. I was really guessing there. 2) Could you add a statement on how current code should handle the FUTEX_OWNER_PENDING bit (when to set it, when to clear it, when to preserve it) so that current code won't be incompatible with likely future uses of this big? 3) You have implicit ABI versioning in the size of the head struct. Could you add words describing that?
Thanks.
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