1. 11 3月, 2011 2 次提交
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      futex: Sanitize futex ops argument types · 8d7718aa
      Michel Lespinasse 提交于
      Change futex_atomic_op_inuser and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic
      prototypes to use u32 types for the futex as this is the data type the
      futex core code uses all over the place.
      Signed-off-by: NMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
      Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      LKML-Reference: <20110311025058.GD26122@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      8d7718aa
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      futex: Sanitize cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API · 37a9d912
      Michel Lespinasse 提交于
      The cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API was funny in that it returned either
      the original, user-exposed futex value OR an error code such as -EFAULT.
      This was confusing at best, and could be a source of livelocks in places
      that retry the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked after trying to fix the issue
      by running fault_in_user_writeable().
          
      This change makes the cmpxchg_futex_value_locked API more similar to the
      get_futex_value_locked one, returning an error code and updating the
      original value through a reference argument.
      Signed-off-by: NMichel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
      Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>  [tile]
      Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>  [ia64]
      Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Tested-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>  [microblaze]
      Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [frv]
      Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
      Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
      Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      LKML-Reference: <20110311024851.GC26122@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      37a9d912
  2. 17 2月, 2010 1 次提交
  3. 15 4月, 2009 1 次提交
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      powerpc: Fix data-corrupting bug in __futex_atomic_op · 306a8288
      Paul Mackerras 提交于
      Richard Henderson pointed out that the powerpc __futex_atomic_op has a
      bug: it will write the wrong value if the stwcx. fails and it has to
      retry the lwarx/stwcx. loop, since 'oparg' will have been overwritten
      by the result from the first time around the loop.  This happens
      because it uses the same register for 'oparg' (an input) as it uses
      for the result.
      
      This fixes it by using separate registers for 'oparg' and 'ret'.
      
      Cc: stable@kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      306a8288
  4. 04 8月, 2008 1 次提交
  5. 30 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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      asm-*/futex.h should include linux/uaccess.h · 730f412c
      Jeff Dike 提交于
      Lots of asm-*/futex.h call pagefault_enable and pagefault_disable, which
      are declared in linux/uaccess.h, without including linux/uaccess.h.
      
      They all include asm/uaccess.h, so this patch replaces asm/uaccess.h
      with linux/uaccess.h.
      Signed-off-by: NJeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      730f412c
  6. 08 12月, 2006 1 次提交
  7. 13 9月, 2006 1 次提交
  8. 28 3月, 2006 2 次提交
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      [PATCH] lightweight robust futexes updates · 8f17d3a5
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      - 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: NIngo 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: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      8f17d3a5
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      [PATCH] lightweight robust futexes: arch defaults · e9056f13
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      This patchset provides a new (written from scratch) implementation of robust
      futexes, called "lightweight robust futexes".  We believe this new
      implementation is faster and simpler than the vma-based robust futex solutions
      presented before, and we'd like this patchset to be adopted in the upstream
      kernel.  This is version 1 of the patchset.
      
        Background
        ----------
      
      What are robust futexes?  To answer that, we first need to understand what
      futexes are: normal futexes are special types of locks that in the
      noncontended case can be acquired/released from userspace without having to
      enter the kernel.
      
      A futex is in essence a user-space address, e.g.  a 32-bit lock variable
      field.  If userspace notices contention (the lock is already owned and someone
      else wants to grab it too) then the lock is marked with a value that says
      "there's a waiter pending", and the sys_futex(FUTEX_WAIT) syscall is used to
      wait for the other guy to release it.  The kernel creates a 'futex queue'
      internally, so that it can later on match up the waiter with the waker -
      without them having to know about each other.  When the owner thread releases
      the futex, it notices (via the variable value) that there were waiter(s)
      pending, and does the sys_futex(FUTEX_WAKE) syscall to wake them up.  Once all
      waiters have taken and released the lock, the futex is again back to
      'uncontended' state, and there's no in-kernel state associated with it.  The
      kernel completely forgets that there ever was a futex at that address.  This
      method makes futexes very lightweight and scalable.
      
      "Robustness" is about dealing with crashes while holding a lock: if a process
      exits prematurely while holding a pthread_mutex_t lock that is also shared
      with some other process (e.g.  yum segfaults while holding a pthread_mutex_t,
      or yum is kill -9-ed), then waiters for that lock need to be notified that the
      last owner of the lock exited in some irregular way.
      
      To solve such types of problems, "robust mutex" userspace APIs were created:
      pthread_mutex_lock() returns an error value if the owner exits prematurely -
      and the new owner can decide whether the data protected by the lock can be
      recovered safely.
      
      There is a big conceptual problem with futex based mutexes though: it is the
      kernel that destroys the owner task (e.g.  due to a SEGFAULT), but the kernel
      cannot help with the cleanup: if there is no 'futex queue' (and in most cases
      there is none, futexes being fast lightweight locks) then the kernel has no
      information to clean up after the held lock!  Userspace has no chance to clean
      up after the lock either - userspace is the one that crashes, so it has no
      opportunity to clean up.  Catch-22.
      
      In practice, when e.g.  yum is kill -9-ed (or segfaults), a system reboot is
      needed to release that futex based lock.  This is one of the leading
      bugreports against yum.
      
      To solve this problem, 'Robust Futex' patches were created and presented on
      lkml: the one written by Todd Kneisel and David Singleton is the most advanced
      at the moment.  These patches all tried to extend the futex abstraction by
      registering futex-based locks in the kernel - and thus give the kernel a
      chance to clean up.
      
      E.g.  in David Singleton's robust-futex-6.patch, there are 3 new syscall
      variants to sys_futex(): FUTEX_REGISTER, FUTEX_DEREGISTER and FUTEX_RECOVER.
      The kernel attaches such robust futexes to vmas (via
      vma->vm_file->f_mapping->robust_head), and at do_exit() time, all vmas are
      searched to see whether they have a robust_head set.
      
      Lots of work went into the vma-based robust-futex patch, and recently it has
      improved significantly, but unfortunately it still has two fundamental
      problems left:
      
       - they have quite complex locking and race scenarios.  The vma-based
         patches had been pending for years, but they are still not completely
         reliable.
      
       - they have to scan _every_ vma at sys_exit() time, per thread!
      
      The second disadvantage is a real killer: pthread_exit() takes around 1
      microsecond on Linux, but with thousands (or tens of thousands) of vmas every
      pthread_exit() takes a millisecond or more, also totally destroying the CPU's
      L1 and L2 caches!
      
      This is very much noticeable even for normal process sys_exit_group() calls:
      the kernel has to do the vma scanning unconditionally!  (this is because the
      kernel has no knowledge about how many robust futexes there are to be cleaned
      up, because a robust futex might have been registered in another task, and the
      futex variable might have been simply mmap()-ed into this process's address
      space).
      
      This huge overhead forced the creation of CONFIG_FUTEX_ROBUST, but worse than
      that: the overhead makes robust futexes impractical for any type of generic
      Linux distribution.
      
      So it became clear to us, something had to be done.  Last week, when Thomas
      Gleixner tried to fix up the vma-based robust futex patch in the -rt tree, he
      found a handful of new races and we were talking about it and were analyzing
      the situation.  At that point a fundamentally different solution occured to
      me.  This patchset (written in the past couple of days) implements that new
      solution.  Be warned though - the patchset does things we normally dont do in
      Linux, so some might find the approach disturbing.  Parental advice
      recommended ;-)
      
        New approach to robust futexes
        ------------------------------
      
      At the heart of this new approach there is a per-thread private list of robust
      locks that userspace is holding (maintained by glibc) - which userspace list
      is registered with the kernel via a new syscall [this registration happens at
      most once per thread lifetime].  At do_exit() time, the kernel checks this
      user-space list: are there any robust futex locks to be cleaned up?
      
      In the common case, at do_exit() time, there is no list registered, so the
      cost of robust futexes is just a simple current->robust_list != NULL
      comparison.  If the thread has registered a list, then normally the list is
      empty.  If the thread/process crashed or terminated in some incorrect way then
      the list might be non-empty: in this case the kernel carefully walks the list
      [not trusting it], and marks all locks that are owned by this thread with the
      FUTEX_OWNER_DEAD bit, and wakes up one waiter (if any).
      
      The list is guaranteed to be private and per-thread, so it's lockless.  There
      is one race possible though: since adding to and removing from the list is
      done after the futex is acquired by glibc, there is a few instructions window
      for the thread (or process) to die there, leaving the futex hung.  To protect
      against this possibility, userspace (glibc) also maintains a simple per-thread
      'list_op_pending' field, to allow the kernel to clean up if the thread dies
      after acquiring the lock, but just before it could have added itself to the
      list.  Glibc sets this list_op_pending field before it tries to acquire the
      futex, and clears it after the list-add (or list-remove) has finished.
      
      That's all that is needed - all the rest of robust-futex cleanup is done in
      userspace [just like with the previous patches].
      
      Ulrich Drepper has implemented the necessary glibc support for this new
      mechanism, which fully enables robust mutexes.  (Ulrich plans to commit these
      changes to glibc-HEAD later today.)
      
      Key differences of this userspace-list based approach, compared to the vma
      based method:
      
       - it's much, much faster: at thread exit time, there's no need to loop
         over every vma (!), which the VM-based method has to do.  Only a very
         simple 'is the list empty' op is done.
      
       - no VM changes are needed - 'struct address_space' is left alone.
      
       - no registration of individual locks is needed: robust mutexes dont need
         any extra per-lock syscalls.  Robust mutexes thus become a very lightweight
         primitive - so they dont force the application designer to do a hard choice
         between performance and robustness - robust mutexes are just as fast.
      
       - no per-lock kernel allocation happens.
      
       - no resource limits are needed.
      
       - no kernel-space recovery call (FUTEX_RECOVER) is needed.
      
       - the implementation and the locking is "obvious", and there are no
         interactions with the VM.
      
        Performance
        -----------
      
      I have benchmarked the time needed for the kernel to process a list of 1
      million (!) held locks, using the new method [on a 2GHz CPU]:
      
       - with FUTEX_WAIT set [contended mutex]: 130 msecs
       - without FUTEX_WAIT set [uncontended mutex]: 30 msecs
      
      I have also measured an approach where glibc does the lock notification [which
      it currently does for !pshared robust mutexes], and that took 256 msecs -
      clearly slower, due to the 1 million FUTEX_WAKE syscalls userspace had to do.
      
      (1 million held locks are unheard of - we expect at most a handful of locks to
      be held at a time.  Nevertheless it's nice to know that this approach scales
      nicely.)
      
        Implementation details
        ----------------------
      
      The patch adds two new syscalls: one to register the userspace list, and one
      to query the registered list pointer:
      
       asmlinkage long
       sys_set_robust_list(struct robust_list_head __user *head,
                           size_t len);
      
       asmlinkage long
       sys_get_robust_list(int pid, struct robust_list_head __user **head_ptr,
                           size_t __user *len_ptr);
      
      List registration is very fast: the pointer is simply stored in
      current->robust_list.  [Note that in the future, if robust futexes become
      widespread, we could extend sys_clone() to register a robust-list head for new
      threads, without the need of another syscall.]
      
      So there is virtually zero overhead for tasks not using robust futexes, and
      even for robust futex users, there is only one extra syscall per thread
      lifetime, and the cleanup operation, if it happens, is fast and
      straightforward.  The kernel doesnt have any internal distinction between
      robust and normal futexes.
      
      If a futex is found to be held at exit time, the kernel sets the highest bit
      of the futex word:
      
      	#define FUTEX_OWNER_DIED        0x40000000
      
      and wakes up the next futex waiter (if any). User-space does the rest of
      the cleanup.
      
      Otherwise, robust futexes are acquired by glibc by putting the TID into the
      futex field atomically.  Waiters set the FUTEX_WAITERS bit:
      
      	#define FUTEX_WAITERS           0x80000000
      
      and the remaining bits are for the TID.
      
        Testing, architecture support
        -----------------------------
      
      I've tested the new syscalls on x86 and x86_64, and have made sure the parsing
      of the userspace list is robust [ ;-) ] even if the list is deliberately
      corrupted.
      
      i386 and x86_64 syscalls are wired up at the moment, and Ulrich has tested the
      new glibc code (on x86_64 and i386), and it works for his robust-mutex
      testcases.
      
      All other architectures should build just fine too - but they wont have the
      new syscalls yet.
      
      Architectures need to implement the new futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inuser() inline
      function before writing up the syscalls (that function returns -ENOSYS right
      now).
      
      This patch:
      
      Add placeholder futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inuser() implementations to every
      architecture that supports futexes.  It returns -ENOSYS.
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
      Acked-by: NUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      e9056f13
  9. 13 1月, 2006 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] powerpc: use lwsync in atomics, bitops, lock functions · 144b9c13
      Anton Blanchard 提交于
      eieio is only a store - store ordering. When used to order an unlock
      operation loads may leak out of the critical region. This is potentially
      buggy, one example is if a user wants to atomically read a couple of
      values.
      
      We can solve this with an lwsync which orders everything except store - load.
      
      I removed the (now unused) EIEIO_ON_SMP macros and the c versions
      isync_on_smp and eieio_on_smp now we dont use them. I also removed some
      old comments that were used to identify inline spinlocks in assembly,
      they dont make sense now our locks are out of line.
      
      Another interesting thing was that read_unlock was using an eieio even
      though the rest of the spinlock code had already been converted to
      use lwsync.
      Signed-off-by: NAnton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      144b9c13
  10. 10 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] powerpc: Consolidate asm compatibility macros · 3ddfbcf1
      David Gibson 提交于
      This patch consolidates macros used to generate assembly for
      compatibility across different CPUs or configs.  A new header,
      asm-powerpc/asm-compat.h contains the main compatibility macros.  It
      uses some preprocessor magic to make the macros suitable both for use
      in .S files, and in inline asm in .c files.  Headers (bitops.h,
      uaccess.h, atomic.h, bug.h) which had their own such compatibility
      macros are changed to use asm-compat.h.
      
      ppc_asm.h is now for use in .S files *only*, and a #error enforces
      that.  As such, we're a lot more careless about namespace pollution
      here than in asm-compat.h.
      
      While we're at it, this patch adds a call to the PPC405_ERR77 macro in
      futex.h which should have had it already, but didn't.
      
      Built and booted on pSeries, Maple and iSeries (ARCH=powerpc).  Built
      for 32-bit powermac (ARCH=powerpc) and Walnut (ARCH=ppc).
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      3ddfbcf1
  11. 02 11月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] powerpc: Merge futex.h · 2ff2ae7a
      David Gibson 提交于
      This patch merges the ppc32 and ppc64 versions of futex.h, essentially
      by taking the ppc64 version as the powerpc version.  The old ppc32
      version did not implement the futex_atomic_op_inuser() callback (it
      always returned -ENOSYS), so FUTEX_WAKE_OP would not work on ppc32.
      In fact the ppc64 version of this function is almost suitable for
      ppc32 as well - the only change needed is to extend ppc_asm.h with a
      macro expanding to to the right pseudo-op to store a pointer (either
      ".long" or ".llong").
      
      Built and booted on pSeries.  Built for 32-bit powermac.
      Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      2ff2ae7a
  12. 25 9月, 2005 1 次提交
  13. 08 9月, 2005 1 次提交
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      [PATCH] FUTEX_WAKE_OP: pthread_cond_signal() speedup · 4732efbe
      Jakub Jelinek 提交于
      ATM pthread_cond_signal is unnecessarily slow, because it wakes one waiter
      (which at least on UP usually means an immediate context switch to one of
      the waiter threads).  This waiter wakes up and after a few instructions it
      attempts to acquire the cv internal lock, but that lock is still held by
      the thread calling pthread_cond_signal.  So it goes to sleep and eventually
      the signalling thread is scheduled in, unlocks the internal lock and wakes
      the waiter again.
      
      Now, before 2003-09-21 NPTL was using FUTEX_REQUEUE in pthread_cond_signal
      to avoid this performance issue, but it was removed when locks were
      redesigned to the 3 state scheme (unlocked, locked uncontended, locked
      contended).
      
      Following scenario shows why simply using FUTEX_REQUEUE in
      pthread_cond_signal together with using lll_mutex_unlock_force in place of
      lll_mutex_unlock is not enough and probably why it has been disabled at
      that time:
      
      The number is value in cv->__data.__lock.
              thr1            thr2            thr3
      0       pthread_cond_wait
      1       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      0       lll_mutex_unlock (cv->__data.__lock)
      0       lll_futex_wait (&cv->__data.__futex, futexval)
      0                       pthread_cond_signal
      1                       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      1                                       pthread_cond_signal
      2                                       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      2                                         lll_futex_wait (&cv->__data.__lock, 2)
      2                       lll_futex_requeue (&cv->__data.__futex, 0, 1, &cv->__data.__lock)
                                # FUTEX_REQUEUE, not FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE
      2                       lll_mutex_unlock_force (cv->__data.__lock)
      0                         cv->__data.__lock = 0
      0                         lll_futex_wake (&cv->__data.__lock, 1)
      1       lll_mutex_lock (cv->__data.__lock)
      0       lll_mutex_unlock (cv->__data.__lock)
                # Here, lll_mutex_unlock doesn't know there are threads waiting
                # on the internal cv's lock
      
      Now, I believe it is possible to use FUTEX_REQUEUE in pthread_cond_signal,
      but it will cost us not one, but 2 extra syscalls and, what's worse, one of
      these extra syscalls will be done for every single waiting loop in
      pthread_cond_*wait.
      
      We would need to use lll_mutex_unlock_force in pthread_cond_signal after
      requeue and lll_mutex_cond_lock in pthread_cond_*wait after lll_futex_wait.
      
      Another alternative is to do the unlocking pthread_cond_signal needs to do
      (the lock can't be unlocked before lll_futex_wake, as that is racy) in the
      kernel.
      
      I have implemented both variants, futex-requeue-glibc.patch is the first
      one and futex-wake_op{,-glibc}.patch is the unlocking inside of the kernel.
       The kernel interface allows userland to specify how exactly an unlocking
      operation should look like (some atomic arithmetic operation with optional
      constant argument and comparison of the previous futex value with another
      constant).
      
      It has been implemented just for ppc*, x86_64 and i?86, for other
      architectures I'm including just a stub header which can be used as a
      starting point by maintainers to write support for their arches and ATM
      will just return -ENOSYS for FUTEX_WAKE_OP.  The requeue patch has been
      (lightly) tested just on x86_64, the wake_op patch on ppc64 kernel running
      32-bit and 64-bit NPTL and x86_64 kernel running 32-bit and 64-bit NPTL.
      
      With the following benchmark on UP x86-64 I get:
      
      for i in nptl-orig nptl-requeue nptl-wake_op; do echo time elf/ld.so --library-path .:$i /tmp/bench; \
      for j in 1 2; do echo ( time elf/ld.so --library-path .:$i /tmp/bench ) 2>&1; done; done
      time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-orig /tmp/bench
      real 0m0.655s user 0m0.253s sys 0m0.403s
      real 0m0.657s user 0m0.269s sys 0m0.388s
      time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-requeue /tmp/bench
      real 0m0.496s user 0m0.225s sys 0m0.271s
      real 0m0.531s user 0m0.242s sys 0m0.288s
      time elf/ld.so --library-path .:nptl-wake_op /tmp/bench
      real 0m0.380s user 0m0.176s sys 0m0.204s
      real 0m0.382s user 0m0.175s sys 0m0.207s
      
      The benchmark is at:
      http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00001.txt
      Older futex-requeue-glibc.patch version is at:
      http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00002.txt
      Older futex-wake_op-glibc.patch version is at:
      http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2005-03/txt00003.txt
      Will post a new version (just x86-64 fixes so that the patch
      applies against pthread_cond_signal.S) to libc-hacker ml soon.
      
      Attached is the kernel FUTEX_WAKE_OP patch as well as a simple-minded
      testcase that will not test the atomicity of the operation, but at least
      check if the threads that should have been woken up are woken up and
      whether the arithmetic operation in the kernel gave the expected results.
      Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
      Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
      Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NYoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      4732efbe