From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH for 4.15 00/24] Restartable sequences and CPU op vector v11 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 14:15:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <1630439840.1550.1522174533412.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> References: <20171114200414.2188-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Turner Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , "Paul E. McKenney" , Boqun Feng , Dave Watson , linux-kernel , linux-api , Andrew Morton , Russell King , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Hunter , Andi Kleen , Chris Lameter , Ben Maurer , rostedt , Josh Triplett , Catalin Marinas , Will List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Hi Paul! I guess stuff like Spectre/Meltdown can turn 1-2 days into months. ;-) I did not want to distract you too much from that work, but you'll notice I've sent an updated patch series against 4.16-rc7, aiming at 4.17 [1] (it should be in your inbox). I would really appreciate if you can find time to provide feedback on that version. Congratulations on the wedding! Thanks, Mathieu [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180327160542.28457-1-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com ----- On Nov 14, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Paul Turner pjt@google.com wrote: > I have some comments that apply to many of the threads. > I've been fully occupied with a wedding and a security issue; but I'm > about to be free to spend the majority of my time on RSEQ things. > I was sorely hoping that day would be today. But it's looking like > I'm still a day or two from being free for this. > Thank you for the extensive clean-ups and user-side development. I > have some updates on these topics also. > > - Paul > > On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Linus Torvalds >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers >>> wrote: >>>> Here is the last RFC round of the updated rseq patchset containing: >>> >>> Andy? You were the one with concerns here and said you'd have >>> something else ready for comparison. >>> >> >> I had a long discussion with Mathieu and KS and I think that this is a >> good compromise. I haven't reviewed the series all that carefully, >> but I think the idea is sound. >> >> Basically, event_counter is gone (to be re-added in a later kernel if >> it really ends up being necessary, but it looks like it may primarily >> be a temptation to write subtly incorrect user code and to see >> scheduling details that shouldn't be readily exposed rather than a >> genuinely useful feature) and the versioning mechanism for the asm >> critical section bit is improved. My crazy proposal should be doable >> on top of this if there's demand and if anyone wants to write the >> gnarly code involved. >> >> IOW no objection from me as long as those changes were made, which I > > *think* they were. Mathieu? -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com