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Commit 337f1304 authored by Darren Hart's avatar Darren Hart Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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futex: Allow FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME with FUTEX_WAIT op



While reviewing Michael Kerrisk's recent futex manpage update, I noticed
that we allow the FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME flag for FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET but
not for FUTEX_WAIT.

FUTEX_WAIT is treated as a simple version for FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET
internally (with a bitmask of FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY). As such, I cannot
come up with a reason for this exclusion for FUTEX_WAIT.

This change does modify the behavior of the futex syscall, changing a
call with FUTEX_WAIT | FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME from returning -ENOSYS, to be
equivalent to FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET | FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME with a bitset of
FUTEX_BITSET_MATCH_ANY.

Reported-by: default avatarMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDarren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9f3bdc116d79d23f5ee72ceb9a2a857f5ff8fa29.1450474525.git.dvhart@linux.intel.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 885c2cb7
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