From: Michel Lespinasse Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 02:07:50 +0000 (-0800) Subject: futex: Update futex_wait_setup comments about locking X-Git-Tag: v2.6.39-rc1~512^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8fe8f545c6d753ead15e1f4919d39e8f9bb49629;p=pandora-kernel.git futex: Update futex_wait_setup comments about locking Reviving a cleanup I had done about a year ago as part of a larger futex_set_wait proposal. Over the years, the locking of the hashed futex queue got improved, so that some of the "rare but normal" race conditions described in comments can't actually happen anymore. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Darren Hart Cc: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <20110307020750.GA31188@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- Reading git-diff-tree failed