Restartable Sequences system call merged into Linux

[Florian Weimer]

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?

> The ABI is designed so that all users (program and libraries) can interact
> through this per-thread TLS area.

Then the user code needs just the address of the structure.

How much coordination is needed between different users of this 
interface?  Looking at the the section hacks, I don't think we want to 
put this into glibc at this stage.  It looks more like something for 
which we traditionally require compiler support.

Thanks,
Florian