[PATCH] schedule removal of FUTEX_FD
Apparently FUTEX_FD is unfixably racy and nothing uses it (or if it does, it
shouldn't).
Add a warning printk, give any remaining users six months to migrate off it.
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c
index b364e00..93ef30b 100644
--- a/kernel/futex.c
+++ b/kernel/futex.c
@@ -1507,6 +1507,13 @@
struct futex_q *q;
struct file *filp;
int ret, err;
+ static unsigned long printk_interval;
+
+ if (printk_timed_ratelimit(&printk_interval, 60 * 60 * 1000)) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "Process `%s' used FUTEX_FD, which "
+ "will be removed from the kernel in June 2007\n",
+ current->comm);
+ }
ret = -EINVAL;
if (!valid_signal(signal))