- no VM changes are needed - 'struct address_space' is left alone.
- - no registration of individual locks is needed: robust mutexes dont
+ - no registration of individual locks is needed: robust mutexes don't
need any extra per-lock syscalls. Robust mutexes thus become a very
- lightweight primitive - so they dont force the application designer
+ lightweight primitive - so they don't force the application designer
to do a hard choice between performance and robustness - robust
mutexes are just as fast.
Testing, architecture support
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-i've tested the new syscalls on x86 and x86_64, and have made sure the
+I've tested the new syscalls on x86 and x86_64, and have made sure the
parsing of the userspace list is robust [ ;-) ] even if the list is
deliberately corrupted.