RE: condvar wakeups

["Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky perez-gonzalez intel com>]

> From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:mingo elte hu]
> 
> > Call me pedantic, please, but if we are attaching so many waiters to a
> > new page, shall not we unpin q->page before requeuing, then pin that new
> > page once per waiter and then at the tail of futex_wait()  unpin
> > q->page?
> >
> > Unless I am missing anything, once we exit from requeue(), page2 is not
> > pinned by anyone, so it could be perfectly be taken out to swap space
> > for a walk.
> 
> you are completely right - the counts are messed up.

Do you want a patch for this or you want to tackle it down
yourself?

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own
(and my fault)