Re: [PATCH 2/4] futex2: Implement vectorized wait

On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 01:00:57PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

quoted

+/**
+ * struct futex_waitv - A waiter for vectorized wait
+ * @val:   Expected value at uaddr
+ * @uaddr: User address to wait on
+ * @flags: Flags for this waiter
+ */
+struct futex_waitv {
+	__u64 val;

Again. Why u64?

So I think the idea was that if we're going to do new syscalls, we
should cater for future extentions, one of which was 64bit futexes (for
64bit archs) (along with u{8,16,32})

The previous set of patches implemented a more complete replacement ABI
-- which I rather liked, however the implementation was completely
disjoint from the existing futexes, which was a non-starter for me.

Anyway, yes, current futexes are u32, but if we want to ever do u64
futexes, we should either do this syscall with a u64, or already plan to
retire the whole syscall.

Obiously this would've made good Changelog material, but alas it wasn't
there.