Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Wed, 9 Mar 2016 09:58:16 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] x86/vdso/32: Add AT_SYSINFO cancellation helpers |
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On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> wrote: > musl implements system call cancellation in an unusual but clever way. > When a thread issues a cancellable syscall, musl issues the syscall > through a special thunk that looks roughly like this: >
FWIW, this patch fails disastrously on 64-bit kernels. I fixed it, but it needs kbuild changes. I'll send those out to the maintainers.
--Andy
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