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SubjectRe: [rfc][patch] futex: restartable futex_wait?
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On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 06:10 +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > i think that's quite right. I'm wondering why this never came up before?
> > But your fix is not complete i think:
> >
> > > + restart->arg2 = time;
> > > + return -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK;
> > > + }
> >
> > 'time' here is relative, so the restarted syscall will do a /full/ wait
> > again.
>
> But it has been modified by schedule_timeout?

But this does not change the syscall registers, so it is restarted in
the same way. We need a new futex OP for this, which takes absolute time
like the PI futex op does.

tglx


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