Restartable Sequences system call merged into Linux

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Jun 15 05:10:00 GMT 2018


On 06/14/2018 03:46 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> This would allow registering various TLS data structures with a single
> system call without hindering flexibility on the user-space side. For
> instance, we could still use initial-exec and the __rseq_abi symbol for
> rseq with this approach.
> 
> Thoughts ?

Isn't this just a very narrow case of the usual batched syscalls 
proposal? 8-)

Florian



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