From 19c6b6ed3f597a583f58e3fc99256cc01ae8c394 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:07:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] schedule removal of FUTEX_FD

Apparently FUTEX_FD is unfixably racy and nothing uses it (or if it does, it
shouldn't).

Add a warning printk, give any remaining users six months to migrate off it.

Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 kernel/futex.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index b364e0026191..93ef30ba209f 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1507,6 +1507,13 @@ static int futex_fd(u32 __user *uaddr, int signal)
 	struct futex_q *q;
 	struct file *filp;
 	int ret, err;
+	static unsigned long printk_interval;
+
+	if (printk_timed_ratelimit(&printk_interval, 60 * 60 * 1000)) {
+		printk(KERN_WARNING "Process `%s' used FUTEX_FD, which "
+		    	"will be removed from the kernel in June 2007\n",
+			current->comm);
+	}
 
 	ret = -EINVAL;
 	if (!valid_signal(signal))
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