Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 10:43:39AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> get_futex_key() does a check against sizeof(u32) regardless of futex being 64bits or not.
> So it is possible a 64bit futex spans two pages of memory...

That would be a user bug.  32-bit futexes have to be 32-bit aligned, 64-bit
futexes have to be 64-bit aligned.

	Jakub
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