[RFC PATCH 0/4] rseq: Introduce extensible struct rseq

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Mon Jul 13 2020 - 23:04:10 EST


Recent discussion led to a solution for extending struct rseq. This is
an implementation of the proposed solution.

Now is a good time to agree on this scheme before the release of glibc
2.32, just in case there are small details to fix on the user-space
side in order to allow extending struct rseq.

Thanks,

Mathieu

Mathieu Desnoyers (4):
selftests: rseq: Use fixed value as rseq_len parameter
rseq: Allow extending struct rseq
selftests: rseq: define __rseq_abi with extensible size
selftests: rseq: print rseq extensible size in basic test

include/linux/sched.h | 4 +++
include/uapi/linux/rseq.h | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++--
kernel/rseq.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++----
tools/testing/selftests/rseq/basic_test.c | 15 ++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/rseq/rseq.c | 8 +++--
5 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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