Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Wed, 14 May 2003 17:41:58 -0700

"Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" <inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com> wrote:
>
> How does this affect mm_release() in fork.c? there is a call to sys_futex();
> if you make it conditional, will it break anything in there?

Via linker magic, mm_release() will simply call sys_ni_syscall() instead.

(I ran a futex-free ppc64 kernel. It worked.)
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