On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 05:38:59PM +0100, Marin Ramesa wrote:
> I have read in "Futexes are tricky" that futex() is used with INT_MAX
> argument. I want to keep that usage. So, if a number of threads to
> wake is greater than number of threads in a futex I wake all.
And it also says everything els
On 12/24/2013 05:20:41 PM, Richard Braun wrote:
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 04:55:47PM +0100, Marin Ramesa wrote:
> I use a recursive futex_wake(). It first scans all the futexes if
> they are on the same offset and if they share the same vm_object.
> If they do, recursion is used to wake a number of
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 04:55:47PM +0100, Marin Ramesa wrote:
> I use a recursive futex_wake(). It first scans all the futexes if
> they are on the same offset and if they share the same vm_object.
> If they do, recursion is used to wake a number of threads in those
> futexes. The number of threads
On 12/24/2013 03:25:15 PM, Richard Braun wrote:
> There is a one call to vm_map lookup to retrive the offset and the
> object. Simple
How do you implement cross address space synchronization ?
I use a recursive futex_wake(). It first scans all the futexes if
they are on the same offset and if
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 12:52:23PM +0100, Marin Ramesa wrote:
> I need to start somewhere. I really want to learn how kernels are
> programmed.
> This task was listed in the small hacks entry, I really thought it
> would be a
> small hack.
That's probably a mistake on our part.
> There is a one c
On 12/24/2013 11:41:40 AM, Richard Braun wrote:
Obviously, you rushed your work without trying to understand what you
were doing, and this is becoming frustrating. Don't blindly and
mindlessly copy the first thing you see around...
1/ A simpleroutine is a one-way RPC, without a return value othe
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 03:58:55PM +0100, Marin Ramesa wrote:
> +simpleroutine futex_rpc(
> + thread : thread_t;
> + address : pointer_t;
> + value : int;
> + operation : int);
> +
> +simpleroutine futex_wait_rpc(
> +
GPL license included, more bugs fixed and RPCs defined.
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Makefrag.am | 2 +
include/mach/gnumach.defs | 26 +++
kern/futex.c | 405 ++
kern/futex.h | 108 +
4 files changed, 541 insertions(+)
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