The FUTEX_LOCK_PI futex operand uses a CLOCK_REALTIME based absolute
timeout since it was implemented, but it does not require that the
FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME flag is set, because that was introduced later.
In theory as none of the user space implementations can set the
FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME flag on this operand, it would be possible to
creatively abuse it and make the meaning invers, i.e. select CLOCK_REALTIME
when not set and CLOCK_MONOTONIC when set. But that's a nasty hackery.
Another option would be to have a new FUTEX_CLOCK_MONOTONIC flag only for
FUTEX_LOCK_PI, but that's also awkward because it does not allow libraries
to handle the timeout clock selection consistently.
So provide a new FUTEX_LOCK_PI2 operand which implements the timeout
semantics which the other operands use and leave FUTEX_LOCK_PI alone.
Reported-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210422194705.440773992@linutronix.de
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