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futex: Add mutex around futex exit
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 6 Nov 2019 21:55:44 +0000 (22:55 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 12:32:12 +0000 (13:32 +0100)
commitf9b0c6c556dbf3694fee05f1334830ce2ec1f5bc
tree150bda20af4262376a8a32f1e716c7058e54453f
parentab89202056ca11596ebed057a7f54fe68576d940
futex: Add mutex around futex exit

commit 3f186d974826847a07bc7964d79ec4eded475ad9 upstream

The mutex will be used in subsequent changes to replace the busy looping of
a waiter when the futex owner is currently executing the exit cleanup to
prevent a potential live lock.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191106224556.845798895@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/futex.h
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/futex.c