Re: [RFC PATCH for 4.21 00/16] rseq updates, new cpu_opv system call (v2)

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Nov 01 2018 - 11:33:57 EST


On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 2:59 AM Mathieu Desnoyers
<mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Here is an updated patchset submitted as RFC for 4.21 (next merge
> window).

So I'm not willing to take the cpu_opv system call until I see the the
regular rseq code getting more real-life use.

Maybe people are using it. Maybe they aren't. I want to hold off and
wait until we _know_ it's getting used, and not just in test
libraries.

Linus