[PATCH] lightweight robust futexes updates

- fix: initialize the robust list(s) to NULL in copy_process.

- doc update

- cleanup: rename _inuser to _inatomic

- __user cleanups and other small cleanups

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index feb724b2554e..9c9b2b6b22dd 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -913,15 +913,15 @@ err_unlock:
  * Process a futex-list entry, check whether it's owned by the
  * dying task, and do notification if so:
  */
-int handle_futex_death(unsigned int *uaddr, struct task_struct *curr)
+int handle_futex_death(u32 __user *uaddr, struct task_struct *curr)
 {
-        unsigned int futex_val;
+        u32 uval;
 
-repeat:
-        if (get_user(futex_val, uaddr))
+retry:
+        if (get_user(uval, uaddr))
                 return -1;
 
-        if ((futex_val & FUTEX_TID_MASK) == curr->pid) {
+        if ((uval & FUTEX_TID_MASK) == curr->pid) {
                 /*
                  * Ok, this dying thread is truly holding a futex
                  * of interest. Set the OWNER_DIED bit atomically
@@ -932,12 +932,11 @@ repeat:
                  * thread-death.) The rest of the cleanup is done in
                  * userspace.
                  */
-                if (futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inuser(uaddr, futex_val,
-                                         futex_val | FUTEX_OWNER_DIED) !=
-                                                                   futex_val)
-                        goto repeat;
+                if (futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(uaddr, uval,
+                                         uval | FUTEX_OWNER_DIED) != uval)
+                        goto retry;
 
-                if (futex_val & FUTEX_WAITERS)
+                if (uval & FUTEX_WAITERS)
                         futex_wake((unsigned long)uaddr, 1);
         }
         return 0;
@@ -985,7 +984,6 @@ void exit_robust_list(struct task_struct *curr)
                         if (handle_futex_death((void *)entry + futex_offset,
                                                 curr))
                                 return;
-
                 /*
                  * Fetch the next entry in the list:
                  */