Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | [RFC PATCH for 4.16 06/21] x86: Wire up restartable sequence system call | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2017 11:13:48 -0500 |
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Wire up the rseq system call on x86 32/64.
This provides an ABI improving the speed of a user-space getcpu operation on x86 by removing the need to perform a function call, "lsl" instruction, or system call on the fast path, as well as improving the speed of user-space operations on per-cpu data.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> CC: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> CC: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> CC: Andrew Hunter <ahh@google.com> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> CC: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> CC: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com> CC: Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com> CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> CC: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> CC: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com> CC: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> CC: linux-api@vger.kernel.org --- arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 + arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl index 448ac2161112..ba43ee75e425 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl @@ -391,3 +391,4 @@ 382 i386 pkey_free sys_pkey_free 383 i386 statx sys_statx 384 i386 arch_prctl sys_arch_prctl compat_sys_arch_prctl +385 i386 rseq sys_rseq diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl index 5aef183e2f85..3ad03495bbb9 100644 --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl @@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ 330 common pkey_alloc sys_pkey_alloc 331 common pkey_free sys_pkey_free 332 common statx sys_statx +333 common rseq sys_rseq # # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact -- 2.11.0
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