[PATCH] schedule removal of FUTEX_FD

Apparently FUTEX_FD is unfixably racy and nothing uses it (or if it does, it
shouldn't).

Add a warning printk, give any remaining users six months to migrate off it.

Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

authored by Andrew Morton and committed by Linus Torvalds 19c6b6ed f46c4833

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kernel/futex.c
··· 1507 1507 struct futex_q *q; 1508 1508 struct file *filp; 1509 1509 int ret, err; 1510 + static unsigned long printk_interval; 1511 + 1512 + if (printk_timed_ratelimit(&printk_interval, 60 * 60 * 1000)) { 1513 + printk(KERN_WARNING "Process `%s' used FUTEX_FD, which " 1514 + "will be removed from the kernel in June 2007\n", 1515 + current->comm); 1516 + } 1510 1517 1511 1518 ret = -EINVAL; 1512 1519 if (!valid_signal(signal))