[PATCH 1/3] futex: remove duplicated code

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Sat Mar 4 23:49:44 AEDT 2017


Jiri Slaby <jslaby at suse.cz> writes:

> There is code duplicated over all architecture's headers for
> futex_atomic_op_inuser. Namely op decoding, access_ok check for uaddr,
> and comparison of the result.
>
> Remove this duplication and leave up to the arches only the needed
> assembly which is now in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser.

Looks OK and boots on powerpc. But I don't think anything's actually
calling those futex ops. Is there a test suite I should run?

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

cheers


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