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authorDarren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com>2008-12-18 15:06:34 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-12-19 09:20:21 +0100
commitb56863630ddbdea6e22df8835f78f0b1da037103 (patch)
tree7b04a35cc94be4e40708855ec644bdaf69e77d65 /kernel
parent73500ac545d24610eb2cf8579ffc88957e9c5847 (diff)
futex: clean up futex_(un)lock_pi fault handling
Impact: cleanup Some apparently left over cruft code was complicating the fault logic: Testing if uval != -EFAULT doesn't have any meaning, get_user() sets ret to either 0 or -EFAULT, there's no need to compare uval, especially not against EFAULT which it will never be. This patch removes the superfluous test and clarifies the comment blocks. Build and boot tested on an 8way x86_64 system. Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c26
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index 99f8acce08b..b4f87bac91c 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1565,12 +1565,11 @@ static int futex_lock_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared,
uaddr_faulted:
/*
- * We have to r/w *(int __user *)uaddr, but we can't modify it
- * non-atomically. Therefore, if get_user below is not
- * enough, we need to handle the fault ourselves, while
- * still holding the mmap_sem.
- *
- * ... and hb->lock. :-) --ANK
+ * We have to r/w *(int __user *)uaddr, and we have to modify it
+ * atomically. Therefore, if we continue to fault after get_user()
+ * below, we need to handle the fault ourselves, while still holding
+ * the mmap_sem. This can occur if the uaddr is under contention as
+ * we have to drop the mmap_sem in order to call get_user().
*/
queue_unlock(&q, hb);
@@ -1582,7 +1581,7 @@ static int futex_lock_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, int fshared,
}
ret = get_user(uval, uaddr);
- if (!ret && (uval != -EFAULT))
+ if (!ret)
goto retry;
if (to)
@@ -1676,12 +1675,11 @@ out:
pi_faulted:
/*
- * We have to r/w *(int __user *)uaddr, but we can't modify it
- * non-atomically. Therefore, if get_user below is not
- * enough, we need to handle the fault ourselves, while
- * still holding the mmap_sem.
- *
- * ... and hb->lock. --ANK
+ * We have to r/w *(int __user *)uaddr, and we have to modify it
+ * atomically. Therefore, if we continue to fault after get_user()
+ * below, we need to handle the fault ourselves, while still holding
+ * the mmap_sem. This can occur if the uaddr is under contention as
+ * we have to drop the mmap_sem in order to call get_user().
*/
spin_unlock(&hb->lock);
@@ -1694,7 +1692,7 @@ pi_faulted:
}
ret = get_user(uval, uaddr);
- if (!ret && (uval != -EFAULT))
+ if (!ret)
goto retry;
return ret;