On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> The solution I did to solve this is to allocate a temporary buffer when
> setting up the block and free it in futex_wait_restart. This patch
> allows David's test program to actually pass.
No. Unacceptable. This is a memory leak in case nobody retries it. It's
basically not how you can do this thing.
The *only* thing you can pass for a system call restart is the argument
block register state. If that is not enough, then you cannot restart it.
It's that simple.
Andrew, please do *not* put this in any queues. It's fundamentally broken,
and cannot be fixed as is.
Linus
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