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Re: [RFC PATCH] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at nptl init and thread creation
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu dot desnoyers at efficios dot com>
- Cc: carlos <carlos at redhat dot com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix dot de>, Ben Maurer <bmaurer at fb dot com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead dot org>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Boqun Feng <boqun dot feng at gmail dot com>, Will Deacon <will dot deacon at arm dot com>, Dave Watson <davejwatson at fb dot com>, Paul Turner <pjt at google dot com>, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, linux-api <linux-api at vger dot kernel dot org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:10:08 +0000
- Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at nptl init and thread creation
- References: <20180919144438.1066-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> <alpine.DEB.2.21.1809191630260.26757@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <67473000.8399.1537375994645.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > This looks like it's coming from the Linux kernel. Can't the relevant
> > uapi header just be used directly without copying into glibc (with due
> > care to ensure that glibc still builds if the kernel headers used for the
> > build are too old - you need such conditionals anyway if they don't define
> > the relevant syscall number)?
>
> This is indeed in the list of "things to consider" I've put in the patch
> commit message. If the usual practice is to build against uapi kernel headers
> outside of the glibc tree, I'm fine with that.
We build with, currently, 3.2 or later headers (since 3.2 is EOL there's a
case for updating the minimum in glibc for both compile time and runtime,
but I haven't proposed that since there isn't much cleanup that would
enable and there's the open question of Carlos's proposal to eliminate the
runtime check on the kernel version and just let things try to run anyway
even if it's older than the configured minimum). Functions depending on
new syscalls may return ENOSYS errors if the headers used to build glibc
were too old. Since this patch is providing a data interface rather than
functions that can set errno to ENOSYS, presumably you have some other way
of signalling unavailability which would apply both with a too-old kernel
at runtime and too-old headers at compile time.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com