Re: [PATCH v1 01/14] futex: Clarify FUTEX2 flags

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Jul 31 2023 - 12:08:21 EST


ROn Fri, Jul 21 2023 at 12:22, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> sys_futex_waitv() is part of the futex2 series (the first and only so
> far) of syscalls and has a flags field per futex (as opposed to flags
> being encoded in the futex op).
>
> This new flags field has a new namespace, which unfortunately isn't
> super explicit. Notably it currently takes FUTEX_32 and
> FUTEX_PRIVATE_FLAG.
>
> Introduce the FUTEX2 namespace to clarify this
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>