Re: Users locking memory using futexes

[Jamie Lokier]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > It would be nice if the futex waitqueues could be re-hashed against swap
> > entries when pages are swapped out, somehow, but this sounds hard.
> 
> yes it sounds hard (and somewhat expensive). The simple solution would be
> to hash against the pte address, which is an invariant over swapout - but
> that breaks inter-process futexes. The hard way would be to rehash the
> futex at the pte address upon swapout, and rehash it with the new physical
> page upon swapin. The pte chain case has to be careful, and rehashing
> should only be done when the physical page is truly unmapped even in the
> last process context.

Can't it be hashed against (address space, offset) for shared
mappings, and against (mm, pte address) for private mappings?

-- Jamie