Re: [patch] 'virtual => physical page mapping cache', vcache-2.5.38-B8

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> the problem is that we want to catch all COW events of the virtual
> address, *and* we want to have a correct (physpage,offset) futex hash.

So?

	spin_lock(&futex_lock);

>         q.page = NULL;
>         attach_vcache(&q.vcache, uaddr, current->mm, futex_vcache_callback);
> 
>         page = pin_page(uaddr - offset);
>         ret = IS_ERR(page);
>         if (ret)
>                 goto out;
>         head = hash_futex(page, offset);
>         set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
>         init_waitqueue_head(&q.waiters);
>         add_wait_queue(&q.waiters, &wait);
>         queue_me(head, &q, page, offset, -1, NULL, uaddr);

	spin_unlock(&futex_lock);

And get the futex_lock in the callback.

		Linus