Restartable Sequences system call merged into Linux

Stefan Liebler stli@linux.ibm.com
Thu Jul 12 08:08:00 GMT 2018


On 07/11/2018 07:45 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 07/11/2018 07:42 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>> I did not dig into to check what it would require to fix this issue,
>> however only x86, sparc, and s390 seems to be affected.
> 
> It should affect all architectures, with varying symptoms, due to the 
> way we allocate the TCB off thread stacks.
> 
>> But thinking
>> twice, it seems we can live with this issue at least for 2.28.
> 
> And we should be able to backport the fix if it happens early enough 
> during 2.29 development.
This sounds fair.

> 
> Thanks,
> Florian
> 



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