rseq enablement patches overview

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

----- On Nov 29, 2019, at 7:07 AM, Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com wrote:

> * Florian Weimer:
> 
>> Since my patchwork looks rather horrible right now and I posted a bunch
>> of vaguely-related cleanups first, here are the patches that currently
>> need review for rseq enablement:
>>
>>   Introduce <elf_machine_sym_no_match.h>
>>   <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-10/msg00339.html>
>>
>>     This is needed in the implementation of _dl_lookup_direct in the
>>     next patch.
>>
>>   Implement __libc_early_init
>>   <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-10/msg00340.html>
>>
>>     This is the main patch.  rseq should be hooked into
>>     __libc_early_init, around the __ctype_init call.
>>
>>   nptl: Start new threads with all signals blocked [BZ #25098]
>>   <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-10/msg00383.html>
>>
>>     This is a long-standing issue which will affect rseq as well.
> 

Hi Florian,

Sorry for the delayed reply,

> I reposted these patches:
> 
>  <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-11/msg00976.html>
>  <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-11/msg00977.html>

For some reason I have issues applying this last patch (00977) on
top of glibc master at commit a059f9505bb. Is there a specific commit
I should use as a baseline ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

>  <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-11/msg01016.html>
> 
>>   resolv/tst-idna_name_classify: Isolate from system libraries
>>   <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-10/msg00338.html>
>>
>>     This is required to fix a test suite failure due to the ld.so static
>>     link ABI changing in the __libc_early_init patch.  (I should
>>     probably just push this one.)
> 
> This patch has been merged.
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian

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