Re: [PATCH] Re: today's futex changes

[Jamie Lokier]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > D: 4) Andrew Morton says spurious wakeup is a bug.  Catch it.
> 
> Yes, but going BUG() is a bit rude.  We can detect the error, we can
> recover from it and it doesn't cause any user data corruption or anything.
> A rude printk is all that is needed here.

Well, it should really _never_ happen.  We are very careful.  Is
there something like BUG() which doesn't terminate the process?

-- Jamie
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