Re: [RFC PATCH for 4.18 10/16] powerpc: Wire up restartable sequences system call

Mathieu Desnoyers [off-list ref] writes:

From: Boqun Feng <redacted>

Wire up the rseq system call on powerpc.

This provides an ABI improving the speed of a user-space getcpu
operation on powerpc 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-reservation/store-conditional atomics.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
CC: Paul Mackerras <redacted>
CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <redacted>
CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
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 arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h      | 1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h      | 2 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Looks fine to me.

I don't have any other new syscalls in my next, so this should not
conflict with anything for 4.18.

Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)


cheers