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| author | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2002-06-05 19:25:28 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com> | 2002-06-05 19:25:28 -0700 |
| commit | 4ccfe3c58319acb4f865bbef435013ef3af5ee1f (patch) | |
| tree | 2bb2f1637542af07d85490656d0494af3d3e1884 /kernel/futex.c | |
| parent | 1e8f2d8cf89006edec3fba65d984ac81ce892a5a (diff) | |
[PATCH] Futex update I: Trivial comment removal
This comment refers to the original implementation. Obsolete.
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/futex.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/futex.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 4541b2448e49..ed03e2b73787 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -35,12 +35,7 @@ #include <linux/time.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> -/* These mutexes are a very simple counter: the winner is the one who - decrements from 1 to 0. The counter starts at 1 when the lock is - free. A value other than 0 or 1 means someone may be sleeping. - This is simple enough to work on all architectures, but has the - problem that if we never "up" the semaphore it could eventually - wrap around. */ +/* Simple "sleep if unchanged" interface. */ /* FIXME: This may be way too small. --RR */ #define FUTEX_HASHBITS 6 |