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* Re: Aw: Re: Revised futex(2) man page for review
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@ 2015-07-28  6:50 ` Davidlohr Bueso
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From: Davidlohr Bueso @ 2015-07-28  6:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Heinrich Schuchardt
  Cc: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages),
	Peter Zijlstra, Thomas Gleixner, Darren Hart,
	Carlos O'Donell, Ingo Molnar, Jakub Jelinek, linux-man, lkml,
	Arnd Bergmann, Steven Rostedt, Linux API, Torvald Riegel,
	Roland McGrath, Darren Hart, Anton Blanchard, Eric Dumazet,
	bill o gallmeister, Jan Kiszka, Daniel Wagner, Rich Felker,
	Andy Lutomirski, bert hubert, Rusty Russell

On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 07:44 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> Hello David,
> 
> >> A futex is in essence a 32-bit user-space address.
> I know what a 32 bit integer is.
> I am not aware of 32 bit addresses on my 64 bit operating system.

Well I am referring to in the context of a user-space address, such as a
32-bit lock ('int'), but yes, my text is misleading. In fact we
obviously need to cast to the word size for doing gup_fast, among other
tasks.

Thanks,
Davidlohr


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