Re: [PATCH] Documentation/robust-futex-API: count properly to 4

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* Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/27/2013 04:18:00 PM, Henrik Austad wrote:
> >A strictly monotonically increasing sequence is normally used in
> >numbered lists as they provide an intuitive ordering of the elements.
> >
> >However, in situations where race conditions can appear, this
> >assumption
> >breaks down and you can end up with unpredictable results, leading
> >to a
> >rather confusing list :-)
> >
> >This changes the numbered list 1,2,2,2 to the more intuitive 1,2,3,4.
> >
> >Introduces in 2eec9ad9 (lightweight robust futexes: docs)
> >
> >CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> >Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> In my queue, assuming it doesn't go in via somebody else first...

Read the thread, it's already in the locking tree.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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