Ignore FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG of sys_futex in SE mode
Review Request #1428 - Created Sept. 20, 2012 and submitted
| Information | |
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| Lluc Alvarez | |
| gem5 | |
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This patch ignores the FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG of the sys_futex system call in SE mode. With this patch, when sys_futex with the options FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE or FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE is emulated, the FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG is ignored and so their behaviours are the regular FUTEX_WAIT and FUTEX_WAKE. Emulating FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE and FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE as if they were non-private is safe from a functional point of view. The FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG does not change the semantics of the futex, it's just a mechanism to improve performance under certain circunstances that can be ignored in SE mode.
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