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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2006-11-02 22:07:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-11-03 12:27:58 -0800
commit19c6b6ed3f597a583f58e3fc99256cc01ae8c394 (patch)
tree3d466c426c1f91cfc1a0a883bda8faffbdac9626
parentf46c483357c2d87606bbefb511321e3efd4baae0 (diff)
downloadlinux-19c6b6ed3f597a583f58e3fc99256cc01ae8c394.tar.gz
[PATCH] schedule removal of FUTEX_FD
Apparently FUTEX_FD is unfixably racy and nothing uses it (or if it does, it shouldn't). Add a warning printk, give any remaining users six months to migrate off it. Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/futex.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index b364e0026191ca..93ef30ba209fc8 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1507,6 +1507,13 @@ static int futex_fd(u32 __user *uaddr, int signal)
struct futex_q *q;
struct file *filp;
int ret, err;
+ static unsigned long printk_interval;
+
+ if (printk_timed_ratelimit(&printk_interval, 60 * 60 * 1000)) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "Process `%s' used FUTEX_FD, which "
+ "will be removed from the kernel in June 2007\n",
+ current->comm);
+ }
ret = -EINVAL;
if (!valid_signal(signal))