[PATCH] futex-2.5.40-B5
This does a number of futex bugfixes, performance improvements and cleanups. The bugfixes are: - fix locking bug noticed by Martin Wirth: the ordering of page_table_lock, vcache_lock and futex_lock was inconsistent and created the possibility of an SMP deadlock. - fix spurious wakeup noticed by Andrew Morton: the get_user() in futex_wait() can set the task state to TASK_RUNNING. - fix futex_wake COW race, noticed by Martin Wirth - futex_wake() has to go through the same lookup rules as the futex_wait() code, otherwise it might end up trying to wake up based on the wrong physical page. Improvements: - speed up the basic addrs => page lookup done by the futex code. It used to do an unconditional get_user_pages() call, which did a vma lookup and other heavy-handed tactics - while the common case is that the page is mapped and available. Furthermore, due to the COW-race code we had to re-check the mapping anyway, which made the get_user_pages() thing pretty unnecessery. This inefficiency was noticed by Martin Wirth. the new lookup code first does a lightweight follow_page(), then if no page is present we do the get_user_pages() thing. - locking cleanups - the new lookup code made some things simpler, eg. the hash calculation can now be done in queue_me(). - added comments - reduced include file use. - increased the futex hashtable.
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