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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:49:56 +0200
From:      Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 104029 for review
Message-ID:  <20060815154956.GB60482@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200608151127.54902.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200608151407.k7FE7Lj5095567@repoman.freebsd.org> <200608151127.54902.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 11:27:54AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 August 2006 10:07, Roman Divacky wrote:
> > http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=104029
> > 
> > Change 104029 by rdivacky@rdivacky_witten on 2006/08/15 14:06:41
> > 
> > 	Protect against racing concurent creation in futex_get()
> > 	
> > 	Pointed out by: jhb
> > 
> > Affected files ...
> > 
> > .. //depot/projects/soc2006/rdivacky_linuxolator/compat/linux/linux_futex.c#24 
> edit
> > 
> > Differences ...
> > 
> > 
> ==== //depot/projects/soc2006/rdivacky_linuxolator/compat/linux/linux_futex.c#24 
> (text+ko) ====
> > 
> > @@ -342,13 +342,13 @@
> >  	if (locked == FUTEX_UNLOCKED)
> >     	   	FUTEX_UNLOCK;
> >  
> > +	if (locked == FUTEX_UNLOCKED)
> > +   	   	FUTEX_LOCK;
> 
> Looks like you should collapse the lock/unlock.  However, it's probably best 
> to use mutexes instead of sx locks, and to instead do something like this:
 
the lock here IS a mutex...
 
> 	lock();
> 	if (item in list) {
> 		item->ref++;
> 		unlock();
> 		return (item);
> 	}
> 	unlock();
> 
> 	new_item = new_item();
> 
> 	lock();
> 	if (item in list) {
> 		item->ref++;
> 		unlock();
> 		free(new_item);
> 		return (item);
> 	}
> 	insert new_item
> 	new_item->ref++;
> 	unlock();
> 	return (new_item)

isnt this exactly what I am doing in later revision?



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