Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Wed, 14 May 2003 07:28:02 +0100

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 03:20:54PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Are futexes unusable without an MMU (I don't know anything about the
> implementation)?

The futex implementation relies heavily on follow_page() which is stubbed out
for nommu builds.

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