Commit 62aca403 authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds
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alpha: fix 32/64-bit bug in futex support

Michael Cree said:

: : I have noticed some user space problems (pulseaudio crashes in pthread
: : code, glibc/nptl test suite failures, java compiler freezes on SMP alpha
: : systems) that arise when using a 2.6.39 or later kernel on Alpha.
: : Bisecting between 2.6.38 and 2.6.39 (using glibc/nptl test suite as
: : criterion for good/bad kernel) eventually leads to:
: :
: : 8d7718aa is the first bad commit
: : commit 8d7718aa
: : Author: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
: : Date:   Thu Mar 10 18:50:58 2011 -0800
: :
: :     futex: Sanitize futex ops argument types
: :
: :     Change futex_atomic_op_inuser and futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic
: :     prototypes to use u32 types for the futex as this is the data type the
: :     futex core code uses all over the place.
: :
: : Looking at the commit I see there is a change of the uaddr argument in
: : the Alpha architecture specific code for futexes f...
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