From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, dvhart@linux.intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] futex: Robustify wake_futex()
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 17:28:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1424309300.18191.2.camel@stgolabs.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150218170704.GA29024@gmail.com>
On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 18:07 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> while the WARN() already told the user that the kernel is
> broken.
>
> So what's the point? Does it avoid any real badness, state
> corruption, crash, hang, etc.?
Right, I mentioned the warn (redundant pi checks) being completely
redundant - thus this is not a real issue... feel free to toss, this was
just a wtf when reading the code ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-19 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-17 4:46 Davidlohr Bueso
2015-02-18 17:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-02-19 1:28 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2015-02-19 9:56 ` Ingo Molnar
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