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Rusty Russell authored
Fast user-space mutex implementation, allowing user space to do all of the normal handling, with a minimal fallback to kernel space for when there is lock contention. The kernel space implementation does not keep any per-lock data structures, but instead does a fast hash on the physical page and offset of the user-space lock when contended. Thus no build/teardown costs, or any scalability costs wrt metadata. Updated syscall numbers for 2.5.6, and changed FUTEX_UP/DOWN definitions to be more logical for future expansions (eg. r/w).
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