Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/4] rseq: Add sched_state field to struct rseq

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Tue, 26 Sept 2023 at 21:51, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> * Dmitry Vyukov:
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> > In reality it's a bit more involved since the field is actually 8
> > bytes and only partially overlaps with rseq.cpu_id_start (it's an
> > 8-byte pointer with high 4 bytes overlap rseq.cpu_id_start):
> >
> > https://github.com/google/tcmalloc/blob/229908285e216cca8b844c1781bf16b838128d1b/tcmalloc/internal/percpu.h#L101-L165
>
> This does not compose with other rseq users, as noted in the sources:
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>   // Note: this makes __rseq_abi.cpu_id_start unusable for its original purpose.
>
> For a core library such a malloc replacement, that is a very bad trap.

I agree. I wouldn't do this if there were other options. That's why I
am looking for official kernel support for this.
If we would have a separate 8 bytes that are overwritten with 0 when a
thread is descheduled, that would be perfect.