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| author | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2007-06-17 21:11:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-06-18 09:48:41 -0700 |
| commit | bd197234b0a616c8f04f6b682326a5a24b33ca92 (patch) | |
| tree | 1c31f8934b0d5472c9038c042ff27d08b52ffdc6 /kernel/signal.c | |
| parent | 188e1f81ba31af1b65a2f3611df4c670b092bbac (diff) | |
Revert "futex_requeue_pi optimization"
This reverts commit d0aa7a70bf03b9de9e995ab272293be1f7937822.
It not only introduced user space visible changes to the futex syscall,
it is also non-functional and there is no way to fix it proper before
the 2.6.22 release.
The breakage report ( http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/12/17 ) went
unanswered, and unfortunately it turned out that the concept is not
feasible at all. It violates the rtmutex semantics badly by introducing
a virtual owner, which hacks around the coupling of the user-space
pi_futex and the kernel internal rt_mutex representation.
At the moment the only safe option is to remove it fully as it contains
user-space visible changes to broken kernel code, which we do not want
to expose in the 2.6.22 release.
The patch reverts the original patch mostly 1:1, but contains a couple
of trivial manual cleanups which were necessary due to patches, which
touched the same area of code later.
Verified against the glibc tests and my own PI futex tests.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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