threads: Update PID limit comment according to futex UAPI change

The futex UAPI changed back in commit 76b81e2 ("[PATCH] lightweight robust futexes updates 2"), which landed in v2.6.17: FUTEX_TID_MASK is now 0x3fffffff instead of 0x1fffffff. Update the corresponding comment in include/linux/threads.h. Documentation mentions that only the lower 29 bits are available for TID storage, but as the UAPI header released the bit already via FUTEX_TID_MASK, this is moot as well. Fix it up. [ tglx: Fixed up documentation ] Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
sudhin-joseph · Mar 21, 2020 · 9c40365 · 9c40365
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diff --git a/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt b/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@ setup that list.
   address of the associated 'lock entry', plus or minus, of what will
   be called the 'lock word', from that 'lock entry'.  The 'lock word'
   is always a 32 bit word, unlike the other words above.  The 'lock
-  word' holds 3 flag bits in the upper 3 bits, and the thread id (TID)
-  of the thread holding the lock in the bottom 29 bits.  See further
+  word' holds 2 flag bits in the upper 2 bits, and the thread id (TID)
+  of the thread holding the lock in the bottom 30 bits.  See further
   below for a description of the flag bits.
 
   The third word, called 'list_op_pending', contains transient copy of
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ that thread's robust_futex linked lock list a given time.
 A given futex lock structure in a user shared memory region may be held
 at different times by any of the threads with access to that region. The
 thread currently holding such a lock, if any, is marked with the threads
-TID in the lower 29 bits of the 'lock word'.
+TID in the lower 30 bits of the 'lock word'.
 
 When adding or removing a lock from its list of held locks, in order for
 the kernel to correctly handle lock cleanup regardless of when the task
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ On insertion:
  1) set the 'list_op_pending' word to the address of the 'lock entry'
     to be inserted,
  2) acquire the futex lock,
- 3) add the lock entry, with its thread id (TID) in the bottom 29 bits
+ 3) add the lock entry, with its thread id (TID) in the bottom 30 bits
     of the 'lock word', to the linked list starting at 'head', and
  4) clear the 'list_op_pending' word.
 
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ On removal:
 
 On exit, the kernel will consider the address stored in
 'list_op_pending' and the address of each 'lock word' found by walking
-the list starting at 'head'.  For each such address, if the bottom 29
+the list starting at 'head'.  For each such address, if the bottom 30
 bits of the 'lock word' at offset 'offset' from that address equals the
 exiting threads TID, then the kernel will do two things:
 
@@ -180,7 +180,5 @@ any point:
     future kernel configuration changes) elements.
 
 When the kernel sees a list entry whose 'lock word' doesn't have the
-current threads TID in the lower 29 bits, it does nothing with that
+current threads TID in the lower 30 bits, it does nothing with that
 entry, and goes on to the next entry.
-
-Bit 29 (0x20000000) of the 'lock word' is reserved for future use.
diff --git a/include/linux/threads.h b/include/linux/threads.h
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 
 /*
  * A maximum of 4 million PIDs should be enough for a while.
- * [NOTE: PID/TIDs are limited to 2^29 ~= 500+ million, see futex.h.]
+ * [NOTE: PID/TIDs are limited to 2^30 ~= 1 billion, see FUTEX_TID_MASK.]
  */
 #define PID_MAX_LIMIT (CONFIG_BASE_SMALL ? PAGE_SIZE * 8 : \
 	(sizeof(long) > 4 ? 4 * 1024 * 1024 : PID_MAX_DEFAULT))