Re: Restartable Sequences system call merged into Linux

[Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw dot cz>]

On Tue 2018-06-12 12:31:24, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- On Jun 12, 2018, at 9:11 AM, Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com wrote:
> 
> > On 06/11/2018 10:04 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >> ----- On Jun 11, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On 06/11/2018 09:49 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >>>> It should be noted that there can be only one rseq TLS area registered per
> >>>> thread,
> >>>> which can then be used by many libraries and by the executable, so this is a
> >>>> process-wide (per-thread) resource that we need to manage carefully.
> >>>
> >>> Is it possible to resize the area after thread creation, perhaps even
> >>> from other threads?
> >> 
> >> I'm not sure why we would want to resize it. The per-thread area is fixed-size.
> >> Its layout is here: include/uapi/linux/rseq.h: struct rseq
> > 
> > Looks I was mistaken and this is very similar to the robust mutex list.
> > 
> > Should we treat it the same way?  Always allocate it for each new thread
> > and register it with the kernel?
> 
> That would be an efficient way to do it, indeed. There is very little
> performance overhead to have rseq registered for all threads, whether or
> not they intend to run rseq critical sections.

People with slow / low memory machines would prefer not to see
overhead they don't need...

> I have a few possible approaches in mind (feel free to suggest other
> options):
> 
> A) glibc exposes a strong __rseq_abi TLS symbol:
> 
>    - should ideally *not* be global-dynamic for performance reasons,
>    - registration to kernel can either be handled explicitly by requiring
>      application or libraries to call an API, or implicitly at thread
>      creation,

...so I'd prefer explicit API call.

> B) librseq.so exposes a strong __rseq_abi symbol:

Works for me.
									Pavel

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