Re: futex(2) man page update help request

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: chrubis@suse.cz
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
	"linux-man@vger.kernel.org" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: futex(2) man page update help request
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 11:40:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140515114006.52a4e07d@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140515152834.GA6926@rei.Home>

On Thu, 15 May 2014 17:28:35 +0200
chrubis@suse.cz wrote:

> Hi!
> > 
> > However, unless I'm sorely mistaken, the larger problem is that glibc
> > removed the futex() call entirely, so these man pages don't describe
> > something users even have access to anymore. I had to revert to calling
> > the syscalls directly in the futextest test suite because of this:
> > 
> > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dvhart/futextest.git/tree/inclu
> 
> So there actually exists some tests for futexes, I've been asked if we
> have these as a LTP[1] maintainer several times.
> 
> Are these tests executed regulary as a part of some automated framework?
> If not it would make sense to port them to LTP (looking at the code that
> would be quite easy task) and get them executed by several QA
> departments for free. What do you think?
> 
> [1] http://linux-test-project.github.io/
> 

I think Thomas may be working on one. If not, I'd be happy to start
writing one as well.

-- Steve