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    rseq: uapi: Update uapi comments · 0fb9a1ab
    Mathieu Desnoyers authored
    Update rseq uapi header comments to reflect that user-space need to do
    thread-local loads/stores from/to the struct rseq fields.
    
    As a consequence of this added requirement, the kernel does not need
    to perform loads/stores with single-copy atomicity.
    
    Update the comment associated to the "flags" fields to describe
    more accurately that it's only useful to facilitate single-stepping
    through rseq critical sections with debuggers.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
    Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
    Cc: Dave Watson <davejwatson@fb.com>
    Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
    Cc: Chris Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    Cc: Ben Maurer <bmaurer@fb.com>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
    Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>
    Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180709195155.7654-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
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