Re: [PATCH 2/6] ipc/sem.c: Bugfix for semctl(,,GETZCNT)

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Mon May 12 2014 - 14:11:47 EST


On Sat, 2014-05-10 at 12:03 +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> GETZCNT is supposed to return the number of threads that wait until
> a semaphore value becomes 0.
> The current implementation overlooks complex operations that contain
> both wait-for-zero operation and operations that alter at least one semaphore.

Indeed. the pending_alter list does represent blocked processes on the
sem. Good catch. Btw, how on earth did you run into this? reading the
code or a real case?

>
> The patch fixes that.
> It's intentionally copy&paste, this will be cleaned up in the next patch.

Instead I would have expected this patch to actually come after the
count_* refactoring.


> Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>

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