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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/futex.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/futex.c b/kernel/futex.c index 3019b92e6917..5696d38cc71d 100644 --- a/kernel/futex.c +++ b/kernel/futex.c @@ -791,10 +791,9 @@ static int wake_futex_pi(u32 __user *uaddr, u32 uval, struct futex_q *this) new_owner = rt_mutex_next_owner(&pi_state->pi_mutex); /* - * This happens when we have stolen the lock and the original - * pending owner did not enqueue itself back on the rt_mutex. - * Thats not a tragedy. We know that way, that a lock waiter - * is on the fly. We make the futex_q waiter the pending owner. + * It is possible that the next waiter (the one that brought + * this owner to the kernel) timed out and is no longer + * waiting on the lock. */ if (!new_owner) new_owner = this->task; |