[RFC PATCH for 4.18 04/23] arm: Wire up restartable sequences system call

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Thu Apr 12 2018 - 15:33:44 EST


Wire up the rseq system call on 32-bit ARM.

This provides an ABI improving the speed of a user-space getcpu
operation on ARM by skipping the getcpu system call on the fast path, as
well as improving the speed of user-space operations on per-cpu data
compared to using load-linked/store-conditional.

TODO: wire up rseq_syscall() on return from system call. It is used with
CONFIG_DEBUG_RSEQ=y to ensure system calls are not issued within rseq critical
section

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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---
arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl b/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
index 0bb0e9c6376c..fbc74b5fa3ed 100644
--- a/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
@@ -412,3 +412,4 @@
395 common pkey_alloc sys_pkey_alloc
396 common pkey_free sys_pkey_free
397 common statx sys_statx
+398 common rseq sys_rseq
--
2.11.0