[RFC] mutex destruction (#13690): problem description and workarounds

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Thu Dec 4 15:16:00 GMT 2014


On 12/04/2014 09:41 AM, Torvald Riegel wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 08:59 -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> I don't quite follow what you're trying to argue. Could you expand in
>> another thread with code examples?
> 
> The underlying issues has been discussed in this thread.  For EINTR on
> futex_wait specifically, spurious wake-ups is something documented by
> the kernel already.
> 
> I have put comments in the code of my semaphore patch that explains how
> it relates to semaphores and their rules around EINTR.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Carlos.
 



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