From a0c1e9073ef7428a14309cba010633a6cd6719ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:23:57 -0800 Subject: futex: runtime enable pi and robust functionality Not all architectures implement futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(). The default implementation returns -ENOSYS, which is currently not handled inside of the futex guts. Futex PI calls and robust list exits with a held futex result in an endless loop in the futex code on architectures which have no support. Fixing up every place where futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() is called would add a fair amount of extra if/else constructs to the already complex code. It is also not possible to disable the robust feature before user space tries to register robust lists. Compile time disabling is not a good idea either, as there are already architectures with runtime detection of futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic support. Detect the functionality at runtime instead by calling cmpxchg_futex_value_locked() with a NULL pointer from the futex initialization code. This is guaranteed to fail, but the call of futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic() happens with pagefaults disabled. On architectures, which use the asm-generic implementation or have a runtime CPU feature detection, a -ENOSYS return value disables the PI/robust features. On architectures with a working implementation the call returns -EFAULT and the PI/robust features are enabled. The relevant syscalls return -ENOSYS and the robust list exit code is blocked, when the detection fails. Fixes http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/149 Originally reported by: Lennart Buytenhek Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Lennert Buytenhek Cc: Riku Voipio Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/futex.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/futex.h') diff --git a/include/linux/futex.h b/include/linux/futex.h index 90048fb28a38..586ab56a3ec3 100644 --- a/include/linux/futex.h +++ b/include/linux/futex.h @@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ union futex_key { #ifdef CONFIG_FUTEX extern void exit_robust_list(struct task_struct *curr); extern void exit_pi_state_list(struct task_struct *curr); +extern int futex_cmpxchg_enabled; #else static inline void exit_robust_list(struct task_struct *curr) { -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b