From 0771dfefc9e538f077d0b43b6dec19a5a67d0e70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:16:22 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] lightweight robust futexes: core

Add the core infrastructure for robust futexes: structure definitions, the new
syscalls and the do_exit() based cleanup mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 include/linux/threads.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'include/linux/threads.h')

diff --git a/include/linux/threads.h b/include/linux/threads.h
index b59738ac619..e646bcdf261 100644
--- a/include/linux/threads.h
+++ b/include/linux/threads.h
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@
 #define PID_MAX_DEFAULT (CONFIG_BASE_SMALL ? 0x1000 : 0x8000)
 
 /*
- * A maximum of 4 million PIDs should be enough for a while:
+ * A maximum of 4 million PIDs should be enough for a while.
+ * [NOTE: PID/TIDs are limited to 2^29 ~= 500+ million, see futex.h.]
  */
 #define PID_MAX_LIMIT (CONFIG_BASE_SMALL ? PAGE_SIZE * 8 : \
 	(sizeof(long) > 4 ? 4 * 1024 * 1024 : PID_MAX_DEFAULT))
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