From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
"musl@lists.openwall.com" <musl@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/vdso/32: Add AT_SYSINFO cancellation helpers
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:58:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrWNSAWHhQmxuJr1eF+3nLkd50NGF3pQ2EiNvzLFKybegQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <06079088639eddd756e2092b735ce4a682081308.1457486598.git.luto@kernel.org>
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote:
> musl implements system call cancellation in an unusual but clever way.
> When a thread issues a cancellable syscall, musl issues the syscall
> through a special thunk that looks roughly like this:
>
FWIW, this patch fails disastrously on 64-bit kernels. I fixed it,
but it needs kbuild changes. I'll send those out to the maintainers.
--Andy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-09 17:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-09 1:24 Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-09 8:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-09 11:34 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-09 11:40 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-09 19:47 ` [musl] " Linus Torvalds
2016-03-09 20:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-09 21:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-10 10:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-10 3:34 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-03-10 11:16 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-10 16:41 ` Rich Felker
2016-03-10 18:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-10 23:28 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-03-11 0:18 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-11 0:48 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-03-11 1:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-11 1:39 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-11 1:49 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-11 1:55 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-03-11 9:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-11 11:39 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-03-11 19:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-11 19:30 ` [musl] " Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-11 19:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-11 19:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-12 17:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-12 18:10 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-03-12 17:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-12 18:05 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-03-12 18:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-12 19:08 ` [musl] " Rich Felker
2016-03-12 17:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2016-03-09 17:58 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2016-03-09 21:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-03-12 18:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
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