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futex: remove FUTEX_REQUEUE_PI (non CMP)
The new requeue PI futex op codes were modeled after the existing FUTEX_REQUEUE and FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE calls. I was unaware at the time that FUTEX_REQUEUE was only around for compatibility reasons and shouldn't be used in new code. Ulrich Drepper elaborates on this in his Futexes are Tricky paper: http://people.redhat.com/drepper/futex.pdf. The deprecated call doesn't catch changes to the futex corresponding to the destination futex which can lead to deadlock. Therefor, I feel it best to remove FUTEX_REQUEUE_PI and leave only FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI as there are not yet any existing users of the API. This patch does change the OP code value of FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE_PI to 12 from 13. Since my test case is the only known user of this API, I felt this was the right thing to do, rather than leave a hole in the enumeration. I chose to continue using the _CMP_ modifier in the OP code to make it explicit to the user that the test is being done. Builds, boots, and ran several hundred iterations requeue_pi.c. Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <[email protected]> LKML-Reference: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
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