Rethinking the futex API
Rethinking the futex API
Posted Jun 19, 2020 5:31 UTC (Fri) by HenrikH (subscriber, #31152)In reply to: Rethinking the futex API by nybble41
Parent article: Rethinking the futex API
Exactly! In Krismans patch to LKML he specifically wrote:
"Before calling the syscall again, userspace should traverse the list, trying to re-acquire any of the other futexes, to prevent an immediate -EWOULDBLOCK return code from the kernel."