Re: [RFC PATCH v9 for 4.15 01/14] Restartable sequences system call

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Oct 14 2017 - 00:05:17 EST


On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> As far as I can see the current model fundamentally only works for
> one user per process (because there is only a single range and abort IP)

No, it should work for libraries, you just need to always initialize
the proper start/commit/abort IP's for every transaction. Then
everybody should be fine.

So I _think_ it's all good. But I really would want to see that
actually being the case.

Linus