[RFC PATCH v8 4/9] Restartable sequences: wire up ARM 32 system call
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <hidden>
Date: 2016-08-19 20:09:55
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lkml
Subsystem:
arm port, the rest · Maintainers:
Russell King, Linus Torvalds
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. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers-vg+e7yoeK/dWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> CC: Russell King <linux-lFZ/pmaqli7XmaaqVzeoHQ@public.gmane.org> CC: Catalin Marinas <redacted> CC: Will Deacon <redacted> CC: Thomas Gleixner <redacted> CC: Paul Turner <redacted> CC: Andrew Hunter <redacted> CC: Peter Zijlstra <redacted> CC: Andy Lutomirski <redacted> CC: Andi Kleen <andi-Vw/NltI1exuRpAAqCnN02g@public.gmane.org> CC: Dave Watson <redacted> CC: Chris Lameter <redacted> CC: Ingo Molnar <redacted> CC: Ben Maurer <redacted> CC: Steven Rostedt <redacted> CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <redacted> CC: Josh Triplett <redacted> CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> CC: Boqun Feng <redacted> CC: linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org --- arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 1 + arch/arm/kernel/calls.S | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
index 2cb9dc7..8f61c79 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h@@ -420,6 +420,7 @@ #define __NR_copy_file_range (__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+391) #define __NR_preadv2 (__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+392) #define __NR_pwritev2 (__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+393) +#define __NR_rseq (__NR_SYSCALL_BASE+394) /* * The following SWIs are ARM private.
diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S b/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S
index 703fa0f..0865c04 100644
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S
+++ b/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S@@ -403,6 +403,7 @@ CALL(sys_copy_file_range) CALL(sys_preadv2) CALL(sys_pwritev2) + CALL(sys_rseq) #ifndef syscalls_counted .equ syscalls_padding, ((NR_syscalls + 3) & ~3) - NR_syscalls #define syscalls_counted
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