RE: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional

From: Christopher Hoover (ch@murgatroid.com)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 19:52:00 EST


> "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > How does this affect mm_release() in fork.c? there is a
> call to sys_futex();
> > if you make it conditional, will it break anything in there?
>
> Via linker magic, mm_release() will simply call
> sys_ni_syscall() instead.
>
> (I ran a futex-free ppc64 kernel. It worked.)

Yep. I'm run an ARM kernel as well. Works fine.

-ch

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