Restartable Sequences system call merged into Linux

[Carlos O'Donell]

On 07/11/2018 01:18 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 07/11/2018 06:23 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>>> The structs rseq_cs and rseq are aligned to 32 bytes. Please have
>>> a look at the bug: "Bug 23403 - Wrong alignment of TLS
>>> variables" 
>>> (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23403).
>>> 
>>> @Carlos or somebody else: Should this be fixed in the upcoming
>>> glibc release?
> 
>> I would consider this a block in fact.
> 
> A proper fix would have to change the way the TCB and static TLS are
> allocated.  I don't see this as something we can pull off in the
> coming weeks.

This can wait. I'm not going to block the release for this bug, but
if you want to try fix it you can.

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Cheers,
Carlos.