On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 01:04:01PM -0400, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So like Thomas, I would suspect a race condition in the futex use, and > then the exact futex implementation details are just exposing it > incidentally.
FWIW, Stockfish does not use futex directly; it uses pthreads (or Win32 threads if you are on that OS :-) ). That doesn't preclude a race condition somewhere, of course. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
