From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
boqun.feng@gmail.com, luto@amacapital.net, davejwatson@fb.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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hpa@zytor.com, Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com>,
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rostedt@goodmis.org, josh@joshtriplett.org,
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Michael Kerrisk-manpages <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH for 4.18 00/14] Restartable Sequences
Date: Thu, 03 May 2018 16:22:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKOZuetW5NEvbROjuquQ_AxrW7BqR5Qfp6BYfy+zUrnPkZDaTw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1718748931.10084.1525363941807.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>
On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 9:12 AM Mathieu Desnoyers <
mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> By the way, if we eventually find a way to enhance user-space mutexes in
the
> fashion you describe here, it would belong to another TLS area, and would
> be registered by another system call than rseq. I proposed a more generic
> "TLS area registration" system call a few years ago, but Linus told me he
> wanted a system call that was specific to rseq. If we need to implement
> other use-cases in a TLS area shared between kernel and user-space in a
> similar fashion, the plan is to do it in a distinct system call.
If we proliferate TLS areas; we'd have to register each one upon thread
creation, adding to the overall thread creation path. There's already a
provision for versioning the TLS area. What's the benefit of splitting the
registration over multiple system calls?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-03 16:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-30 22:44 [RFC PATCH for 4.18 00/14] Restartable Sequences Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 01/14] uapi headers: Provide types_32_64.h (v2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 02/14] rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call (v13) Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-16 16:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-16 20:18 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 03/14] arm: Add restartable sequences support Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-16 16:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-16 20:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-17 13:32 ` Will Deacon
2018-05-17 15:30 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-22 18:19 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 04/14] arm: Wire up restartable sequences system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 05/14] x86: Add support for restartable sequences (v2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 06/14] x86: Wire up restartable sequence system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 07/14] powerpc: Add support for restartable sequences Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-16 16:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-16 20:13 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-17 1:19 ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-17 7:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-17 15:28 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-17 23:50 ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-18 18:17 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-20 14:08 ` Boqun Feng
2018-05-23 20:14 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-23 20:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2018-05-23 21:29 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-24 1:03 ` Michael Ellerman
2018-05-28 7:00 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-18 12:38 ` Michael Ellerman
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 08/14] powerpc: Wire up restartable sequences system call Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 09/14] selftests: lib.mk: Introduce OVERRIDE_TARGETS Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 10/14] rseq: selftests: Provide rseq library (v5) Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 11/14] rseq: selftests: Provide basic test Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 12/14] rseq: selftests: Provide basic percpu ops test (v2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 13/14] rseq: selftests: Provide parametrized tests (v2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-04-30 22:44 ` [PATCH 14/14] rseq: selftests: Provide Makefile, scripts, gitignore (v2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-02 3:53 ` [RFC PATCH for 4.18 00/14] Restartable Sequences Daniel Colascione
2018-05-02 8:43 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-02 16:03 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-02 16:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-02 16:42 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-05-02 16:55 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-03 16:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-03 16:22 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2018-05-03 18:04 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2018-05-03 16:48 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-05-03 17:18 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-03 17:46 ` Joel Fernandes
2018-05-04 22:17 ` Ben Maurer
2018-05-02 17:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-02 18:27 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-02 20:22 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-02 20:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-05-03 1:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-05-03 8:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-05-06 10:03 ` Thomas Gleixner
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