From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753350AbXCOTIn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:08:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753352AbXCOTIn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:08:43 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:36736 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753350AbXCOTIY (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:08:24 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:07:52 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Pierre.Peiffer@bull.net Cc: mingo@elte.hu, drepper@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jean-pierre.dion@bull.net, pierre.peiffer@bull.net Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 4/4] sys_futex64 : allows 64bit futexes Message-Id: <20070315110752.f1df4509.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20070313095549.813330645@bull.net> References: <20070313095203.154246923@bull.net> <20070313095549.813330645@bull.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:52:07 +0100 Pierre.Peiffer@bull.net wrote: > This last patch is an adaptation of the sys_futex64 syscall provided in -rt > patch (originally written by Ingo). It allows the use of 64bit futex. > > I have re-worked most of the code to avoid the duplication of the code. > > It does not provide the functionality for all architectures (only for x64 for now). What a lot of code. Why do we want 64-bit futexes?